Poster & Banner Kempen Pilihan Raya Kecil DUN Bukit Selambau

Anda dialu-alukan memaparkan poster dan banner kempen bersempena pilihan raya kecil Dun Bukit Selambau di laman web dan blog sebagai tanda sokongan terhadap calon Pakatan Rakyat, S. Manikumar.

PEJABAT DATUK SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM

Mahathir’s coronation as eminence grise in Najib premiership

Lim Kit Siang

Many Malaysians must have very mixed thoughts about Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s appearance at the Bukit Gantang by-election hustings this morning and in particular at the 90-minute live telecast by TV1 of the entire event.

The first thought is that the Najib premiership has made no real difference with the continued unchecked and blatant abuse of government power and resources for Umno and Barisan Nasional purposes, the shocking lack of integrity in the inability of those in power to make the important distinctions among government, party and self which is the root cause of rampant corruption and abuses of power in a government dominated by Umno hegemony.

How can a government channel, TV1, give a live telecast to what is clearly a by-election campaigning by Umno/Barisan Nasional? TV1 is no different from RTM1, what it was known previously, which I had described as Radio/Television Mahathir in the 22-year Mahathir administration.

However, what must have occurred to many who happened to watch the live telecast was that they were not just watching Mahathir campaigning for Umno/BN in Bukit Gantang by-election after rejoining Umno, but a “coronation” of Mahathir as the eminence grise in the Najib premiership and the formal burial of the Abdullah legacy in Umno and Barisan Nasional!

Insiden prpvokasi BN – Catatan dari MPT KeADILan

Suara Keadilan

BUKIT SELAMBAU- Isnin 6 April. Tengahari semalam, sekumpulan petugas dari Biro Kemasyarakatan PKR Pusat yang di pimpin oleIh YB Gobalakrishnan telah pergi kekawasan Taman Bandar Baru untuk program merayu undi dari rumah ke rumah. Untuk melincinkan tugas kami telah berpecah kepada beberapa kumpulan kecil. Sejurus selepas memulakan tugas, saya dan 2 teman lain terlihat dua helai banner yang berbentuk serangan peribadi terhadap Ketua Umum Parti kami, yang di gantung berhampiran dengan sebuah bilik gerakan BN.

Tiada logo mana-mana parti pada banner tersebut, oleh itu kami telah pergi untuk menanggalkannya. Baru sempat kami menanggalkan banner yang pertama, kami telah didatangi oleh sekumpulan lebih kurang 15 orang yang sebelum itu berada di hadapan bilik gerakan BN dan boleh dikatakan hampir semua memakai baju yang tertera logo BN.

Mereka telah memaki-hamun kami dengan kata-kata yang kesat dan melarang kami untuk menurunkan baner-baner tersebut.Apabila kami mengatakan yang banner-baner tersebut telah melanggar peraturan pilihanraya, mereka telah menyatakan yang banner itu telah di pasang oleh pihak UMNO dan bukan dari mereka ( MIC ).

Kami kemudiannya telah cuba untuk bergerak untuk memasuki kawasan perumahan untuk merayu undi, tetapi telah dilarang secara keras dan ganas oleh kumpulan itu yang menyatakan, ‘kamu tidak boleh masuk sini , ini kawasan kami.’ Mereka juga telah mengugut untuk mengetuk kepala kami dengan parang jika kami cuba masuk juga kedalam kawasan tersebut.

Oleh kerana takut keselamatan kami dalam bahaya, kami terus ke Pondok Polis yang berhampiran untuk membuat laporan. Ketika kami sedang membuat laporan tersebut, kumpulan yang sama yang kini sudah berjumlah diantara 25 ke 30 orang telah datang dan membantah kami membuat laporan tersebut.

Dalam masa yang sama YB Gobalakrishnan dan teman-teman yang lain telah sampai di Pondok Polit tersebut dan keadaan menjadi tegang dan kecoh, pihak Polis pula tidak dapat untuk mengawal keadaan, Oleh itu kami kami mengambil keputusan untuk beredar dari Pondok Polis tersebut dengan secapat mingkin.

Saya telah diminta untuk pergi ke Balai Polis Bedong papa hari itu juga untuk menbuat laporan. Alhamdulillah pihak Polis di situ telah melayan saya secara sopan, tetapi saya agak terkilan apa bila mereka mengambil gambar baner tersebut di dalam bonet kereta saya dengan secara jelas menampakan no pendaftaraan kereta saya, umpama saya yang bersalah.

Selepas itu Pihak Polis telah menyuruh saya pergi semula ke kawasan tersebut dengan wakil SPR, kerana mereka sahaja yang boleh menanggalkan baner yang kedua itu. Bagi saya ini tidak betul kerana tanpa logo mana-mana parti, banner tersebut tidak termasuk dalam kategori bahan-bahan kempen rasmi pilihanraya.

Kami disini merasa amat kesal kerana pihak kerajaan serta agensi-agensi yang telah diamanahkan untuk memastikan pilihanraya dijalankan dengan teratur, adil, dan selamat telah gagal berbuat demikian. Kami jega amat kesal kerana parti-parti dari kompenen BN terus menggtunakan khidmat samseng sebagai sebahagian daripada jentera pilihanraya mereka.

Dengan ini, sistem demokrasi di negara ini bukan sahaja gagal dipertingkatkan, tetapi sebaliknya semakin terhakis…….

ANIMAH FERRAR
Ahli Majlis Pimpinan Tertinggi
Timbalan Ketua Biro Kemasyarakatan
Parti Keadilan Rakyat Malaysia

Najib, for what little gain will you sell the Holy Quran?

“No these were not defenders of Islam.

These are manipulators of the faith and its adherents,

for any little they can gain for themselves”!

 

Anwaribrahimblog.com

By Haris Ibrahim

5.30pm yesterday evening, I was alerted by one in the team that a police report was due to be made at the Taiping police IPD against YB Nga Kor Ming, the member of parliament for Taiping.

The complaint, so the information went, was that the YB had the audacity to recite verses from the Holy Qur’an at a ceramah the night before.

Gan, Ariff and I got to the balai by about 5.40pm.

Other media members were already waiting at the entrance to the balai. Someone had obviously gone to great lengths to leak the story.

Ariff and I stepped into the balai to inquire if such a report had been lodged.

The officer manning the frontdesk kindly checked and confirmed that no such report had been lodged.

As we walked back to the entrance, we saw the entourage.

The person who appeared to be leading the pack, Hj Osman Abu Bakar, Ketua Umum / Presiden of Barisan Bertindak Perpaduan Melayu (BBPM ), was persuaded to speak to the media before the group entered the balai to lodge the report.

Osman alleged that the night before, at a ceramah, YB Nga had recited from the Holy Qur’an, had got the rendition all wrong, and had even puported from a non-existent Surah Aurat, when there was no such surah in the holy book.

By this, he contended, YB Nga had ‘mempersendakan Islam’. He went on quite a bit about this until someone else stepped into the limelight.

Hj Hassan Hamzah introduced himself as the Setiausaha Terhormat of the BBPM.

He picked up where Osman had left off.

“Islam dipersendakan”, he asserted, almost as if both he and Osman were parroting from a script.

He went on.

“Niat YB Nga adalah untuk menghina Islam, menghina orang Melayu dan mecabar hak istimewa orang Melayu”, he insisted.

And I thought, “Oh God, more of this rubbish from these monkeys”.

Asked what they hoped to achieve by making the report, Hassan justified it on the basis of Fardhu Khifayah, that it behoved every Muslim to step forward and correct this wrong done towards Islam.

I’d heard enough and removed myself from the ongoing press conference, stepping out of the balai compound for a smoke.

The group stepped into the balai to lodge the report.

I thought it was over.

Wrong.

Hassan was out again, this time singing like a canary.

And he seemed to have forgotten the script.

The man just wouldn’t stop talking, even as he was being pumped with questions by the media, but he seemed most interested in the camera man from NTV7 / TV3.

He volunteered that the mufti of Perak was waiting to be interviewed on this issue, and that the camera man from NTV7 / TV3 should hurry to do that interview so that they could run the story that night. In fact, he suggested that the views of Tok Guru Nik Aziz be also sought on the issue.

Hassan had just inadvertantly disclosed that an elaborate plan of sorts had been hatched.

Somewhere along the way, the man forgot himself and disclosed that he was the timbalan ketua cawangan UMNO bahagian Bagan Datoh. Those who are not familiar, this is the constituency of Datuk Zahid Hamidi, one of the three newly elected vice-presidents of UMNO and the one who has been hankering to lick Najib’s boots.

Having made this disclosure, he was now pressed if the report might not be politically motivated, although he had just earlier insisted that the police report coupled with some well-timed media reports would make for a good polemic on the issue.

He conceded that it was political.

Then he dropped the bombshell.

If the TV could get this news out, complete with the interview with the eagerly awaiting mufti, by the next day (today), they’d put together a video clip showing an excerpt of YB Nga’s speech together with excerpts from the news report, burn 50,000 CDs and flood Bukit Gantang with the same.

Asked on whose instructions he was acting, he replied that instructions for this came from the very top.

By this time, there was little talk about defending Islam.

No these were not defenders of Islam.

These are manipulators of the faith and its adherents, for any little they can gain for themselves!

 

 

Faktor kemenangan PAS di Bukit Gantang

Harakah Daily

Berdasarkan mood pengundi yang disokong oleh rakyat Perak dari pelbagai kaum, Pakatan Rakyat boleh diisytihar menang! Kenyataan ini boleh dikongsi bersama berasaskan senario yang wujud di Bukit Gantang.

Berdasarkan sambutan pada penamaan calon yang menyebelahi Pakatan Rakyat apabila perarakan itu disertai kira-kira 50 ribu rakyat yang datang menzahirkan sokongan tinggi terhadap Dato Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaludddin (Ir Mohd Nizar) selaku calon. Pada pusingan awal ini, majoriti mood rakyat yang disokong oleh senario hangat politik Perak sejak berlaku rampasan mandat rakyat pada 5-6 Februari lalu boleh diratingkan sebagai menang Pakatan Rakyat.

Kesannya rakyat telah bangkit (dalam perarakan calon Pakatan Rakyat) bagi menyatakan bangkangan terhadap tindakan anti sistem yang dimulakan oleh Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib yang menggunakan taktik permainan kotor.

Apabila berlakunya pilihan raya kecil Bukit Gantang, maka ruang terbuka luas bagi rakyat membuktikan mandat rakyat pada pilihan raya umum 2008 adalah masih kekal.

Justeru itu, pilihan raya kecil kali ini adalah peluang membuktikan bahawa rakyat tidak merestui kerjatangan Mohd Najib yang baru dilantik sebagai Perdana Menteri pada 3 Mac lalu.

Selanjutnya, bagi membuktikan bantahan rakyat Perak terhadap permainan kotor rampasan mandat rakyat itu, ia telah diterjemahkan melalui sambutan hangat kempen calon Pakatan Rakyat dan isu-isu yang disampaikan kepada setiap pengundi.

Ia disusuli dengan sambutan luar biasa kehadiran kali pertama Presiden PAS dan Mursyidul Am PAS ke Bukit Gantang, diikuti dengan Penasihat Umum KeADILan yang ceramahnya berdepan dengan halangan polis atas alasan akan membawa kesesakan teruk trafik.

Mood tersebut berkekalan sebaik sahaja Ir Mohd Nizar diamanahkan sebagai calon yang berdepan dengan calon BN dan Bebas.

Calon BN mahupun Bebas adalah memiliki populariti yang jauh tercorok berbanding Ir Mohd Nizar. Setiap kali kempen peribadi anjuran calon PAS secara langsung mahupun tidak adalah mendapat publisiti percuma beberapa media perdana (kerana melaporkan isu-isu manipulatif seperti peristiwa tazkirah di Masjid Simpang). Begitu juga media berbahasa Mandarin turut melapor secara terperinci pergerakan kempen calon Pakatan Rakyat itu.

Kesemua senario itu, membawa kepada ramalan awal perjalanan kempen adalah berpihak kepada Pakatan Rakyat, maka Pakatan Rakyat layak menang.

Sehinggalah Timbalan Presiden Umno, Muhyidin dan Dr Zambry Menteri Besar ‘rampasan mandat rakyat’ begitu tertekan. Begitu pula, Naib Presiden Umno, Zahid terpaksa berkempen secara ‘unIslamic’ menggunakan hiburan ‘panas’ (disertai tarian gadis terdedah) untuk meraikan kumpulan pengundi muda Cina!! Gambar Malaysiaikini membuktikan.

Walaupun itu adalah melanggari nilai-nilai masyarakat Melayu Bukit Gantang, ia terpaksa dilakukan demi meraih simpati pengundi Cina yang sedang menolak calon BN yang mirip wajah Dr Zambry itu.

Begitu pula di dalam usaha memenangi jiwa ‘agama’ pengundi Melayu, Muhyidin telah terpaksa menjadi imam solat di salah sebuah masjid diikuti dengan majlis sumbangan ‘wang’ untuk pengerusi-pengerusi masjid (bukan rasuah kerana ia dibuat atas nama agensi kerajaan, walaupun tujuannya untuk meraih undi). Sedangkan berapa lama dah UMNO memerintah Perak, dan berapa banyak pungutan zakat dibuat dan sudah jutaan ringgit projek pembangunan masjid diluluskan dalam bajet kerajaan… masjid yang ada terus diabai sehingga berlaku pilihan raya kecil barulah disalurkan sumbangan untuk pembangunan masjid!

Pihak bukan BN mempersoalkan: Tindakkah itu satu cara memperalatkan masjid dan imam serta pengerusi masjid; menerima wang politik yang mirip kepada rasuah. Mungkin Pengerusi Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya Malaysia (SPR) boleh mentafsirkan itu sebagai rasuah dari pemimpin Umno untuk kelompok pengundi!

Sekiranya pengundi Melayu Bukit Gantang dalam memahami tindakan sumbangan wang politik itu adalah amalan rasuah dan amalan rasuah pengundi adalah tradisi kempen pilihan raya BN, maka fahaman ini akan menyebabkan pengundi Melayu bakal melakukan react dengan mengundi calon PAS Ir Mohd Nizar layak berada dipihak menang!

Meskipun calon PAS menerima serangan peribadi yang teruk dalam dua isu utama: penderhaka dan boneka Cina. Kedua-dua isu ini dinilai oleh pemerhati bebas sebagai chewgum yang terlekat dalam ketiadaan air liur sahaja.

Ini bermakna pengundi muda yang bermaklumat tidak mudah dipengaruhi. Kerana dua isu ini adalah ‘klasik’ dan bersifat order lama. Hal ini memungkin pengundi muda kekal bersama Pakatan Rakyat yang statusnya majoriti mengundi Pakatan Rakyat. Rating ini adalah melayakkan Pakatan Rakyat menang!

Bagaimana pula pengundi wanita? Apakah dengan peralihan pimpinan wanita Umno, kekalahan Rafidah Aziz yang sekian lama membawa imej wanita Perak dalam arus nasional masih membawa kelebihan kepada calon BN.

Apa yang berlaku, segelintir pengundi wanita diberitahu ‘calon kite’ adalah peminat pusat hiburan di Danok. Lalu pemerhati luar yang mendapat respon, betapa Danok itu adalah lokasinya di Thailand adalah pusat hiburan yang berat kepada ‘kemaksiatan’.

Apakah wanita Bukit Gantang boleh menerima seorang ‘calon kite’ yang memiliki kegemaran demikian? Persoalan ini terjurus kepada kain pemidang yang tertulis huruf besar “DANOK” berwarna biru.

Ia boleh jadi satu isyarat daripada kumpulan wanita prihatin ditujukan kepada Ismail bukannya Kamarul bukan juga Ir Mohd Nizar.

Jika tafsiran ini tepat, sudah pasti pengundi wanita tidak akan berfikir banyak kali untuk tidak mengundi BN dalam pilihan raya kecil Bukit Gantang!

Layaknya Pakatan Rakyat dapat memenangi hati wanita, kerana Ir Mohd Nizar dilihat bebas dengan imej “DANOK”.

Daripada analisis senario di atas, blog ini merumuskan: Dalam kempen yang normal, tanpa penglibatan ugutan pihak samseng terhadap pengundi Cina dan India, mahupun Melayu, maka Pakatan Rakyat menguasai kempen dan layaknya mencapai kemenangan.

Namun Tuhan yang Esa adalah perancang mutlak, manusia sekadar merancang untuk mencapai segala tujuan. Tujuan itu tetap tercapai bila diizin-Nya.

(Penulis adalah Setiausaha Jabatan Pilihan Raya PAS Pusat, yang juga bekas Ahli Parlimen Bachok, analisis beliau boleh dilayari di greencresent-wanibrah.blogspot.com – Editor) – mr _

Man detained for selling Altantuya masks

The Malaysian Insider

By Debra Chong

TRONG, April 6 — A 41-year-old man from Negeri Sembilan was picked up by the police in Kg Batu 8 in nearby Trong, Bukit Gantang at 6pm today allegedly for selling cardboard masks of Altantuya Shaariibuu.

Bistari Ibrahim is still detained at the Taiping police headquarters. It is not known if he has been charged or what the crime is.

His business partner Mohd Salehuddin, 39, told The Malaysian Insider they had been selling the masks for RM2 each for the past two days without any problems.

BN man denies he is man in Thai bar girl photo

The Malaysian Insider

By Adib Zalkapli

TAIPING, April 6 — With less than 12 hours before polling for the Bukit Gantang parliamentary election begins, Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate Ismail Saffian found himself to be a victim today of what he claims is gutter politics.

He was forced today to deny his involvement with a Thai bar girl in a photograph allegedly taken of him in a border town in Thailand.

In a specially called press conference late this afternoon, Ismail said a doctored picture showing him with a girl in Southern Thailand was circulated to discredit his credibility.

“It was done by desperate parties ahead of the polling day tomorrow,” he told reporters.

Recently a booklet detailing Selangor state executive councillor from PKR Elizabeth Wong’s alleged sex scandal was also circulated.

Ismail, who is facing Pas’s Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin and an independent, also denied that he had written a letter addressed to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak apologising to him over corruption cases.

The ‘letter’ was also circulated in the Bukit Gantang constituency.

Ismail added that he was selected to be the candidate after he was cleared by the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC).

“I have strong evidence from MACC that I am clean and can contest here,” he told reporters.

Ismail later lodged a police report at the Simpang Police Station near here.

The campaign period for the by-election ends at midnight and the results of the polling which is scheduled to start at 8am tomorrow will be known by 10pm.

THE EC IS ATTEMPTING TO RIG THE BATANG AI BYE-ELECTION!

The Might of the Pen

MAFREL NOT ALLOWED TO ESCORT BALLOT BOXES TOGETHER WITH SPR OFFICIALS FROM POLLING CENTRE TO COUNTING CENTRE

 

Mafrel had written a letter of protest to the Returning Officer N29 Batang Ai and SPR director, seeking permission to follow the ballot box from the polling centre to the counting centre but was told by the returning officer for Batang Ai, Nelson Mujah that it has to seek permission from SPR headquarters in Putrajaya. When ask about any contesting party, will be escorting the ballot box together with official, he said no, only SPR officials will be doing the transporting of the ballot box. Mafrel and political parties’ agents can only follow separately with their own transportations.

Mafrel asked for the reasons why SPR choose to shift the ballot boxes from voting stations for them to be counted at the ‘dewan pengiraan’ (counting centre) and when did they change this policy of not counting the votes at the polling station, as is done for the rest of the country. The returning officer said, “This had been done in the past elections where the ballot boxes are transferred to the counting centre in Lubok Antu.

To read more please go to :

http://sjsandteam.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/the-ec-is-attempting-to-rig-the-batang-ai-bye-election/

Press Release – SPR’s Electoral Roll almost ‘expired’

MAFREL (640757-M)

Malaysians for Free and Fair Elections
Suite 2-2-40, 2nd. Floor
Wisma Rampai, Rampai Town Centre,
Jalan 34/26, 53300 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +603-4149 4248 , Fax: +603 4142 2997

PRESS RELEASE

SPR’s Electoral Roll almost `expired’!

 

 

 

 

From a Electoral Roll Verification (ERV) exercise conducted in 3 by-election areas Mafrel, an election watch dog accredited by Election Commission(SPR), found that the regularly disputed electoral roll prepared by the SPR has almost reached its `expiry’ date.

The roll fails to provide full address for huge chunk of voters-about 1 in 20; fails to clean up dead voters-leaving about 100 suspected dead voters in each constituency, failed to provide more than half the voters’ house number; fail to sign up about 1/3 of the eligible voters.

In so doing, the SPR’s electoral roll provide ample space for vote frauds, including `phantom voters’. In view of these long term chronic failures Mafrel call upon the SPR to seriously consider abandoning its inefficient and costly voters registration exercise, and opt for automatic registration based on the more professionally compiled and ready made National Registration Department database.

In so doing, SPR can uphold the voting rights of all citizens while, under current depressing economic prospect, create significant saving for the country once and for all.

To read more please go to :

http://mafrel.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/press-release-sprs-electoral-roll-almost-expired

 

Latest results from Batang Ai on Polling Day

Malaysia Today

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