SIBU: Barisan Nasional’s (BN) grassroot machinery has gone full throttle to ensure the Nangka state constituency remains a BN stronghold as PKR keenly eyes the seat.
State BN secretary-general Datuk Dr Stephen Rundi said they had read PKR’s game plan in attempting to establish a support base there.
“We are fully aware of their intention and strategies and our grassroot machinery had been working extra hard to make sure Nangka remains in BN.
“We are confident that the team lead by Dr Annuar (Rapaee) will deliver the seat for BN in the next (state) election,” Dr Rundi, who is Assistant Minister of Public Utilities (Electricity and Telecommunications), told The Borneo Post yesterday.
He was reacting to PKR Sibu branch chief Abdul Raafidin Majidi’s statement that the party had put up a candidate in Nangka in the next state election to wrest the seat from BN.
Abdul Raafidin further claimed that the candidate identified had been going to the ground, especially to Kampung Hilir and Kampung Datu to assist people such as single mothers and the elderly.
The state PKR youth chief, however, added that they would probably not contest other seats in Sibu like Bawang Assan and Pelawan, giving way to DAP.
Assistant Minister of Youth Development Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, meanwhile, dismissed their aspirations as a mere dream.
Abdul Karim, who is Asajaya assemblyman, pointed out there was nothing wrong with dreaming big in politics, adding that that was what PKR was doing now, especially PKR Sibu.
“Not being arrogant, but PKR Sibu can keep on dreaming,” he said, reiterating that Malaysia is a democratic country and PKR are welcome to move around anywhere they wanted.
“But the people are not to be fooled by them. They know what diamonds are and what pieces of glass are.
“They know who can deliver and who can just shout and unfortunately this is what PKR is good at,” the PBB Supreme Council member said.
He reckoned PKR would be lucky if they could even get a single seat in the next state election.
“They manage to scrape through with three seats with help from DAP in the last state election and even DAP has lost faith in them now,” Abdul Karim noted.
State BN Youth Chief Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof had earlier told reporters after the ‘Malam Mesra Pemuda PBB’ at Lake Garden here in May this year that PBB Youth Zone 12 had been tasked to come up with an action plan for the next state election.
Fadillah, who is also Works Minister, noted that Dr Annuar had performed very well in terms of serving the people for a first term assemblyman.
In the 2011 state election, BN supporters sent the opposition packing when PBB Nangka candidate Dr Annuar won with a majority of 5,302 votes.
Dr Annuar garnered 7,710 votes to defeat PKR candidate Norisham Mohamed Ali, who polled 2,408 votes.
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