SIBU: DAP’s mission to go rural may well be an eye opener for them so that they can appreciate that Sarawak is almost the size of Peninsula and to implement development projects is certainly no walk in the park.
PBB supreme council member Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said the opposition’s move to go to the rural areas was most welcomed so that they could see for themselves the real thing.
He was responding to DAP’s three broad strategies to break BN stronghold in the state, one of which was that they had identified 20 rural seats as special focus in the next state election.
Outgoing state DAP chairman, Wong Ho Leng, who proposed the strategies during the 16th DAP Sarawak Ordinary Convention, said the party should implement the strategies to do well in the 11th state election.
Abdul Karim, who is Assistant Minister of Youth Development and Asajaya assemblyman, said: “Malaysia is a democratic country, and all registered political parties have the rights to strategise themselves to win over the people.
“We welcome them to the rural areas and hopefully, this could open their eyes and see that Sarawak is a big state and to develop it is not easy after all.”
He said that the party (DAP) was able to prove its strength by winning many urban seats in the last state and general elections.
“Of course, after making a foothold in the state, the party will not stop there. It will have a bigger agenda – forming the state government and the only way to do it, is to go rural.
“That’s where they came up with the three strategies to break BN stronghold. One of them is to identify 20 rural seats to contest.”
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