Buktikan kerjasama,bersatu tolak BN!

Harakah Daily

SUNGAI PETANI, 7 April (Hrkh) – Presiden PAS, Dato’ Seri Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang menyeru pengundi pelbagai kaum bersatu membuat perubahan dan membuktikan kerjasama serta persefahaman dengan menolak Barisan Nasional (BN) pada Pilihan Raya kecil.

Ujar Tuan Guru, PAS telah menang di Bukit Gantang pada pilihan raya lalu bukan sahaja dengan undi orang Melayu tetapi juga hasil sokongan orang India dan Cina.

“Hari ini orang India dan Cina menunjukkan sokongan yang lebih hebat di Bukit Gantang. Jangan pula kita orang Melayu di Bukit Selambau tidak ada semangat nak sokong calon kita ini (S Manikumar).

“Di Bukit Gantang kita nak menang, Bukit Selambau kita biar macam itu sahaja, itu tidak adil. Kita orang Melayu di sini undi calon India kita dan orang India dan Cina di sana undi calon PAS Bukit Gantang.

“Buktikan kerjasama kita, buktikan persefahaman kita, buktikan kita bersatu untuk membuat perubahan dalam pilihan raya,” tegas beliau yang disambut laungan takbir lebih 5,000 hadirin pada ceramahnya di Taman Ria Jaya, di sini semalam.

Terdahulu dalam ucapannya, Abdul Hadi menjelaskan mengenai persefahaman yang diadakan oleh Baginda Nabi Muhammad SAW dengan penganut-penganut agama Yahudi, Kristian dan kabilah-kabilah Arab dalam mengukuhkan pemerintahan negara.

Beliau turut membawakan kisah Rasulullah menggunakan khidmat seorang bukan Islam sebagai penunjuk jalan dalam Hijrah Baginda ke Madinah.

Tegas beliau, di atas ajaran itulah PAS mengadakan kerjasama dengan penganut-penganut agama lain dalam membentuk kerajaan.

Oleh itu, beliau menyeru para pengundi di Bukit Selambau memberikan undi kepada S Manikumar sebagai calon Pakatan Rakyat untuk mengukuhkan kerajaan di Kedah.

Menjawab tuduhan Umno bahawa Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Perak telah khianat kepada orang Melayu kerana memberi geran tanah Kampung Baru Cina sebelum ini, beliau menegaskan bahawa Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Perak sebenarnya bersikap adil kepada semua kaum.

Ujarnya, Islam mengajar untuk bersikap adil walaupun kepada musuh apatah lagi kepada rakyat sendiri, oleh itu menjadi tanggung jawab kerajaan untuk berlaku adil kepada semua kaum.

Tegas beliau, Umnolah sebenarnya pengkhianat kepada orang Melayu. Beliau memberikan contoh mengenai tulisan Jawi yang telah hilang dari orang Melayu sedangkan orang Cina dan India masih memiliki tulisan mereka masing-masing.

Turut berceramah pada malam itu ialah Sasterawan Negara, Dato’ A. Samad Said. Hadir sama beberapa tokoh pejuang bahasa antaranya Prof Dr Abdullah Hassan, Ainon Mohd dan lain-lain termasuk calon Pakatan Rakyat Dun Bukit Selambau, S Manikumar. – mks. _

Pakatan scores higher in 2 Bukits, BN keeps Batang Ai

The Malaysian Insider

UPDATED AT 10.30pm

KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 — Wounded from losing Perak, Pakatan Rakyat fought back with greater ferocity to retain both Bukit Gantang and Bukit Selambau with bigger majorities, reinforcing a two-party concept and striking a blow to new Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s “One Malaysia” idea.

Najib’s ruling Barisan Nasional kept the Batang Air state seat in Sarawak with a bigger majority but the results laid bare the lie that its Election 2008 defeat was due to former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s weak leadership.

Ironically, Abdullah’s trenchant critic and predecessor Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad campaigned vigorously yesterday for Barisan Nasional in both Bukit Gantang and Bukit Selambau and endorsed Najib as a better leader for the country’s future.

The people in Peninsular Malaysia decided otherwise, with Bukit Gantang giving PAS candidate Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin a higher majority of 2,789 votes in what was seen as a referendum of BN’s putsch in Perak when it ousted the popular mentri besar.

Far from being a washed-up has been politician known for defying a state Ruler, the Pasir Panjang state assemblyman will now have a national stage to fight his cause apart from increasing the Pakatan Rakyat numbers to 82 in Parliament.

In the Kedah state seat of Bukit Selambau, the first scent of BN’s loss came when candidate Datuk S. Ganesan told reporters he will not turn up at the counting centre in Sungai Petani. PKR’s S. Manikumar retained the seat with an increased majority of 2,396 votes and won himself a state executive councillor post.

PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was happy with the results, conceding they did not expect to win in Batang Ai which he had earlier declared was the beachfront to take Sarawak.

“Malaysians want to change irrespective of the new PM. They still want a change. They are stronger in their support for Pakatan Rakyat,” he told reporters near Taiping.

He said he was satisfied with the results and glad about the Bukit Selambau win where Manikumar was one of 15 candidates, the largest field of candidates in Malaysia.

Asked if the Bukit Gantang results reflected the people’s desire for fresh state elections, Anwar said: “Certainly there should be fresh elections.”

Perak Umno secretary Datuk Ramly Zahari said: “We still maintained the Malay votes that we got in 2008.”

He said the non-Malays voted for PAS because of the populist policies of the PR-led state government including awarding permanent land titles to new villagers.

“And probably our strategy was also not right. We couldn’t focus much on the by-election because of the party elections and in Perak itself we have been busy with the political turmoil,” he told The Malaysian Insider.

PPP president Datuk M. Kayveas said the results were more disappointing than his own defeat in Election 2008,

 

adding he believed BN could win and this was not a referendum on Najib who is widely blamed for ousting Nizar.

“Don’t prejudge him. He has not formed his Cabinet yet, give him time,” Kayveas said in Taiping.

“Najib’s takeover and changes are yet to be felt on the ground. It will take six or seven months for it to be felt,” he said, adding some did not even know that ISA detainees had been released.

Gerakan president Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon said the results were a reminder that BN has to effect reforms more concretely.
“Admittedly, the results showed BN has yet to turn the tide in regaining support from the people, especially the non-Malay voters,” he said in a statement.

The former Penang chief minister said BN should learn lessons from these by-elections and retune its strategy and approach, which he described as the great challenge for the next two years.

But he said BN has a good platform to perform, implement positive reforms and good policies benefiting the people as it remained the federal government and, in winning Batang Ai, retained the confidence of Sarawak’s rural people.

Barisan Nasional’s only consolation was in Sarawak where Batang Ai returning officer Nelson Mujah declared BN’s Malcom Mussem Lamoh the winner at 7.40pm to thunderous applause.

He won with 3,907 votes against PKR’s Jawah Gerang’s 2,053 in the remote constituency of 8,006 voters where the voter turnout was 71 per cent (5,670 voters).

Election officials said the final turnout in Bukit Gantang was 75 per cent or 41,626 out of 55,562 voters while it was 70 per cent in Bukit Selambau or 24,687 voters from 35,140 voters.

Counting started at 3pm in Batang Ai while election officials said counting began at 5.30pm in Bukit Gantang and Bukit Selambau.

There were stand-offs between rival supporters in both Bukit Gantang, where riot police earlier fired tear gas, and Bukit Selambau where police had to stop them from throwing water-bottles at each other.

Riot police fired tear gas in Pengkalan Changkat Jering to disperse rival supporters in the Bukit Gantang parliamentary by-election but voters continued to stream in to cast their ballots.

Polling was more peaceful in Batang Ai and Bukit Selambau, although the Kedah state seat had tense moments when PAS supporters stopped several busloads of people suspected of being phantom voters. Police said they were just BN supporters.

Witnesses said the FRU were called into the SMK Pengkalan Aur polling centre in Air Kuning, Changkat Jering to diffuse tension between rival supporters who threw bottles and chairs at each other between 11am and 12.30pm.

Some of the elderly who came out to vote were affected by the tear gas which was apparently fired at the Barisan Nasional side. Apart from the FRU, police Light Strike Force personnel had to rush around the parliamentary constituency to keep both PAS and Barisan Nasional supporters apart.

A downpour at 1pm in Bukit Gantang did not last long, and the sun was back within the hour, bringing the voters streaming back.

Election officials said the final turnout in Bukit Gantang was 75 per cent or 41,626 voters while it was 70 per cent in Bukit Selambau (24,687 voters). In Batang Ai, Election Commission chairman Abdul Aziz Yusof said it was 71 per cent (5,670 voters).

Bernama reported that six out of the 25 polling stations in Batang Ai were closed by 11am due to the small number of voters.

Sarawak EC director Takun Sunggah said the polling stations were at SK Ulu Engkari, SK Nanga Delok, SK Nanga Aup, Sempang Kemas kindergarten, Salcra Batang Ai multi-purpose hall and the Nanga Patoh Agriculture Office.

It is learnt that at least three buses with suspected phantom voters were stopped in Lubok Antu. They are now being held at the police station.

The EC said in the three by-elections, senior citizens and women were the majority of voters in the morning, while more young voters were expected to cast their ballot papers in the afternoon and evening.

In Sungai Petani, Kedah EC director Zainal Abidin Zakaria said the voting process for the Bukit Selambau seat went on smoothly and the fine weather was the reason many came out to vote in the morning at the 22 polling centres.

Kedah police chief Datuk Syed Ismail Syed Azizan said police were patrolling the roads and monitoring all the voting areas besides carrying out air surveillance.

“So far, so good. No untoward incident has happened except for some shouting and jeering by party supporters in the hot spots,” he said.

He also said a busload of BN supporters was mistaken for phantom voters by their political rivals.

Later, police said two men, one aged 37 and the other 54, were detained at Kampung Bukit Lembu this morning for stopping the bus, which was carrying BN election workers to their assigned stations across the constituency.

Police said the two men, driving a Toyota MPV, cut across the path of the bus and forced it to stop before boarding it and preventing the driver from proceeding with his journey.

PKR’s S. Manikumar arrived at his SMK Taman Ria Jaya voting centre and told reporters he was hoping for a bigger majority.

He is one of 15 candidates running for the state seat, making it the largest field of candidates in electoral history.

His BN opponent, Datuk S. Ganesan, was seen casting his vote at SJKT Ladang Perbadanan Kedah.

Independent candidate M. Vinsen has complained of discrepancies in the ballot papers at the Institut Kemahiran Mara polling centre.

He said that his name was placed next to someone else’s logo in the ballot paper. He also said that his name was misspelt in the ballot counting box which would be used for the counting process later.

Vinsen said he has lodged a police report and intends to take action against the EC. But the commission said it was a mistake that has been rectified.

Earlier, some supporters prayed for PAS candidate Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin’s success at the Bukit Gantang parliamentary by-election, where a victory will be seen as vindication for his short tenure as Perak mentri besar before he was ousted in February.

He was mobbed by supporters outside the Sekolah Kebangsaan Changkat Jering but booed by BN supporters who greeted him with shouts of “Traitor” for having defied the Perak Ruler by refusing to quit as mentri besar.

The Bukit Gantang constituency has traditionally been pro-Umno but they voted for PAS in 2008 due to dissatisfaction with outside Umno candidate, party treasurer Datuk Azim Zabidi.

The current BN candidate is local boy Ismail Saffian, who is confident of faring better and regaining the seat.

Ismail arrived at the SRK Bukit Gantang about 8.45am to cast his vote and told reporters later that he expected victory with a 3,000-vote majority. Apart from Nizar, the other candidate is independent candidate Kamarul Ramizu Idris.

BN supporters were quieter and seemed content to wave BN and Umno flags. All shows of support have been peaceful thus far.

However, seven police Light Strike Force personnel complete with helmets, shields and armed with batons had to form a barrier between vocal PAS and BN supporters outside one voting centre.

Taiping OCPD Asst Commissioner Raja Musa told reporters Light Strike Force personnel have been placed outside all voting centres to monitor and prevent rising tensions. The normally sleepy constituency and its main town of Taiping was heavy with traffic and there was congestion in some areas.

Supporters from both sides are providing transport for voters to the voting centres.

The Bukit Gantang constituency has 55,562 registered voters, the majority of whom are Malays followed by Chinese and Indians, while Bukit Selambau has 35,140 voters, with Malays forming slightly more than half, followed by Indians and Chinese.

The by-elections in Bukit Gantang and Batang Ai are held following the death of the incumbents, Roslan Shaharum (PAS) and Datuk Dublin Unting Inkot (BN) respectively, while in Bukit Selambau it is due to the resignation of its assemblyman V. Arumugam (PKR).

Voting ends at 5pm and officials say all results could be announced before 9pm.

BN retains Batang Ai, still loses in 2 Bukits

The Malaysian Insider

KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 — It was status quo tonight as incumbent Barisan National retained the Batang Ai state seat with an increased 1,854-vote majority but lost to Pakatan Rakyat in the Bukit Gantang parliamentary seat and Bukit Selambau state seat.

 

Ironically, the ruling coalition lost in the two seats that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had campaigned and endorsed new Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

 

PAS’s Datuk Seri Mohammmad Nizar Jamaluddin won the Bukit Gantang seat with an increased majority in what was seen as a referendum of BN’s putsch in Perak when they ousted the popular mentri besar. The official results are expected within the hour.

 

In the Kedah state seat of Bukit Selambau, the first scent of BN’s loss came when candidate Datuk S. Ganesan told reporters he will not turn up at the counting centre in Sungai Petani. Election officials are tabulating the final results now.

 

Barisan Nasional’s only consolation was in Sarawak where Batang Ai returning officer Nelson Mujah declared BN’s Malcom Mussem Lamoh the winner at 7.40pm to thunderous applause.

He won with 3,907 votes against PKR’s Jawah Gerang’s 2,053 in the remote constituency of 8,006 voters.

 

Voting ended in the Bukit Gantang, Bukit Selambau and Batang Ai by-elections with a high voter turnout of at least 70 per cent.

Counting started at 3pm in Batang Ai while election officials said counting began at 5.30pm in Bukit Gantang and Bukit Selambau.

 

There were stand-offs between rival supporters in both Bukit Gantang, where riot police earlier fired tear gas, and Bukit Selambau where police had to stop them from throwing water-bottles at each other.

 

Riot police fired tear gas in Pengkalan Changkat Jering to disperse rival supporters in the Bukit Gantang parliamentary by-election but voters continued to stream in to cast their ballots.

 

Polling was more peaceful in Batang Ai and Bukit Selambau, although the Kedah state seat had tense moments when PAS supporters stopped several busloads of people suspected of being phantom voters. Police said they were just BN supporters.

 

Witnesses said the FRU were called into the SMK Pengkalan Aur polling centre in Air Kuning, Changkat Jering to diffuse tension between rival supporters who threw bottles and chairs at each other between 11am and 12.30pm.

 

Some of the elderly who came out to vote were affected by the tear gas which was apparently fired at the Barisan Nasional side. Apart from the FRU, police Light Strike Force personnel had to rush around the parliamentary constituency to keep both PAS and Barisan Nasional supporters apart.

 

A downpour at 1pm in Bukit Gantang did not last long, and the sun was back within the hour, bringing the voters streaming back.

Election officials said the final turnout in Bukit Gantang was 75 per cent or 41,626 voters while it was 70 per cent in Bukit Selambau (24,687 voters). In Batang Ai, Election Commission chairman Abdul Aziz Yusof said it was 71 per cent (5,670 voters).

 

Bernama reported that six out of the 25 polling stations in Batang Ai were closed by 11am due to the small number of voters.

Sarawak EC director Takun Sunggah said the polling stations were at SK Ulu Engkari, SK Nanga Delok, SK Nanga Aup, Sempang Kemas kindergarten, Salcra Batang Ai multi-purpose hall and the Nanga Patoh Agriculture Office.

 

It is learnt that at least three buses with suspected phantom voters were stopped in Lubok Antu. They are now being held at the police station.

The Batang Ai by-election in Sarawak is a straight contest between BN’s Malcom Mussen Lamoh and PKR’s Jawah Gerang. It has 8,006 voters, the large majority of whom are Ibans.

 

The EC said in the three by-elections, senior citizens and women were the majority of voters in the morning, while more young voters were expected to cast their ballot papers in the afternoon and evening.

 

In Sungai Petani, Kedah EC director Zainal Abidin Zakaria said the voting process for the Bukit Selambau seat went on smoothly and the fine weather was the reason many came out to vote in the morning at the 22 polling centres.

 

Kedah police chief Datuk Syed Ismail Syed Azizan said police were patrolling the roads and monitoring all the voting areas besides carrying out air surveillance.

 

“So far, so good. No untoward incident has happened except for some shouting and jeering by party supporters in the hot spots,” he said.

He also said a busload of BN supporters was mistaken for phantom voters by their political rivals.

Later, police said two men, one aged 37 and the other 54, were detained at Kampung Bukit Lembu this morning for stopping the bus, which was carrying BN election workers to their assigned stations across the constituency.

 

Police said the two men, driving a Toyota MPV, cut across the path of the bus and forced it to stop before boarding it and preventing the driver from proceeding with his journey.

 

PKR’s S. Manikumar arrived at his SMK Taman Ria Jaya voting centre and told reporters he was hoping for a bigger majority.

He is one of 15 candidates running for the state seat, making it the largest field of candidates in electoral history. His BN opponent, Datuk S. Ganesan, was seen casting his vote at SJKT Ladang Perbadanan Kedah.

 

Independent candidate M. Vinsen has complained of discrepancies in the ballot papers at the Institut Kemahiran Mara polling centre.

He said that his name was placed next to someone else’s logo in the ballot paper. He also said that his name was mispelt in the ballot counting box which would be used for the counting process later.

Vinsen said he has lodged a police report and intends to take action against the EC. But the commission said it was a mistake that has been rectified.

 

Earlier, some supporters prayed for PAS candidate Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin’s success at the Bukit Gantang parliamentary by-election, where a victory will be seen as vindication for his short tenure as Perak mentri besar before he was ousted in February.

 

He was mobbed by supporters outside the Sekolah Kebangsaan Changkat Jering but booed by BN supporters who greeted him with shouts of “Traitor” for having defied the Perak Ruler by refusing to quit as mentri besar.

 

The Bukit Gantang constituency has traditionally been pro-Umno but they voted for PAS in 2008 due to dissatisfaction with outside Umno candidate, party treasurer Datuk Azim Zabidi.

 

The current BN candidate is local boy Ismail Saffian, who is confident of faring better and regaining the seat.

 

Ismail arrived at the SRK Bukit Gantang about 8.45am to cast his vote and told reporters later that he expected victory with a 3,000-vote majority. Apart from Nizar, the other candidate is independent candidate Kamarul Ramizu Idris.

 

BN supporters were quieter and seemed content to wave BN and Umno flags. All shows of support have been peaceful thus far.

 

However, seven police Light Strike Force personnel complete with helmets, shields and armed with batons had to form a barrier between vocal PAS and BN supporters outside one voting centre.

 

Taiping OCPD Asst Commissioner Raja Musa told reporters Light Strike Force personnel have been placed outside all voting centres to monitor and prevent rising tensions. The normally sleepy constituency and its main town of Taiping was heavy with traffic and there was congestion in some areas.

 

Supporters from both sides are providing transport for voters to the voting centres.

 

The Bukit Gantang constituency has 55,562 registered voters, the majority of whom are Malays followed by Chinese and Indians, while Bukit Selambau has 35,140 voters, with Malays forming slightly more than half, followed by Indians and Chinese.

 

The by-elections in Bukit Gantang and Batang Ai are held following the death of the incumbents, Roslan Shaharum (PAS) and Datuk Dublin Unting Inkot (BN) respectively, while in Bukit Selambau it is due to the resignation of its assemblyman V. Arumugam (PKR).

 

Voting ends at 5pm and officials say all results could be announced before 9pm

Sooner or later, Najib must face allegations

Malaysiakini

Steve Oh

I refer to the Malaysiakini report Najib sworn in as PM.

Many Malaysians would have celebrated the appointment of their new Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak with more fanfare but sadly the event has been marred by the ‘gorilla’ on his back.

It is the first time in the country’s history a leader’s appointment is so doubted, so thwarted, that 81 members of parliament and a former government minister have appealed to the country’s King to intervene. Of course, the gesture is symbolic for how can the king do something so ridiculous?

Those who believe in the rule of law must be sure that a person is guilty before being condemned even if we believe that judges can be unjust. Najib Razak would have been deemed guilty had the King stopped the investiture. And that would have been unfair.

It is the court that decides if one is guilty or not, not the media or the public and Najib was not even been called in as a witness in the Altantuya trial, which adds to the intrigue.

Allegations of wrongdoing related to the Altantuya murder, helicopter purchases, abuse of power, a RM50 million bribery allegation are some of the thorns in his side that he can’t ignore. At some point, it may be necessary for him to bite the bullet and face those charges head on by initiating a full inquiry so as to clear his name once and for all.

Or go to court and let justice take its course. Otherwise the nagging pain will incapacitate his ability to focus on the job. If the aim to stay mum to make the allegations go away, I think it is a hope against hope.

There is no way the media, both at home and abroad, can be forced not to refer to the allegations and this is going to affect his ability to hold a stiff upper lip whenever he fronts journalists, especially in the West, who are going to ask him those pesky questions especially about Altantuya. Hardly a day passes without some foreign news report regurgitating the allegations.

The fact that Altantuya was a beautiful woman only fires up the imagination of the media that latches on to a sensational story like a swarm of flies onto a rotting fish. What has made the situation worse is that Abdul Razak Baginda has been acquitted so it leaves the nagging question, ‘Who killed Altantuya?’ and ‘Who ordered her killing?’

Malaysians look up to the office of prime minister with pride. None of those who have gone into the august office have had a millstone around their neck like Najib Razak has and it does not augur well for the nation that he takes up the nation’s highest office handicapped by these allegations, some of which are not merely rumours but serious statutory declarations.

Nothing is as cruel and unjust as trial by media.

As long as the rumour mills are busy and the innuendos fly and the statutory declarations are left to rot the damage is done. Najib has two options. To ignore them or to bring those who make or spread them to justice. Some allegations may be easier to resolve than others. But if there is the will to get to the truth, no effort should be spared.

It no longer is a private matter because the reputation of the one who occupies the highest office in the land is important to every citizen and the honour of the country is at stake. It has become a national issue and sooner or later, it has to be resolved – but not with more clampdowns but proper investigations.

The ride ahead for the new PM is just going to get bumpier and with the return of the ‘Godfather’, Malaysian politics will be anything but boring, especially after a lull of snoring.

Perhaps people should start cancelling their cable television subscriptions because the action will soon heat up. Let’s hope it will be more exciting than the last session.

And let’s hope justice will prevail.

Voting over in tri-elections

Malaysiakini

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Polling at Bukit Selambau, Bukit Gantang and Batang Ai started at 8am this morning. Both Bukit Selambau (Kedah) and Batang Ai (Sarawak) are state seats while Bukit Gantang is a parliamentary seat. There are almost 100,000 eligible voters in the three constituencies. Voting ends at 5pm and results are expected after 10pm.

 

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5pm Polling ends in Bukit Gantang, Bukit Selambau and Batang Ai.

4.50pm Bukit Selambau The voter turnout was 67 percent as at 4pm.

4.45pm Bukit Selambau The situation in several areas is quite tense with supporters from BN and Pakatan having a go at each other.

In certain places, only a heavy police presence is keeping people calm.

One focal point is Sungai Lalang where the supporters are trading insults and hurling plastic water bottles at one another.

State MIC chief V Saravanan was subjected to intense heckling by the Pakatan supporters when he arrived at Sungai Lalang. The police had to intervene quickly to stop the BN supporters from starting a fight as a result of this.

There is a similar situation at Taman Ria, with both sets of supporters insulting each other. The police are keeping a close watch on the BN supporters, largely made up of Puteri Umno members, and the Pakatan crowd.

A strong FRU force is present, while a police helicopter is hovering above.

Heavy rain has failed to disperse the supporters. 

To read more please go to : http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/101843

N25 Bukit Selambau : satu lagi penipuan SPR

Suara Keadilan

Anna Yusof

SUNGAI PETANI 7 April (SK) : KETUA Angkatan Muda KeADILan Batu, wilayah Persekutuan Rozan Azen melaporkan bahawa SuruhanJaya Puliharaya (SPR Bukit Selambau enggan terima laporan bantahan oleh pihak Pakata Rakyat tengah hari tadi.

Pada jam 2.30 Tengah hari tadi beliau dan beberapa petugas Paktan Rakyat telah membuat satu laporan bahawa pengundi yang tidak berdaftar di pusat mengundi Sek. Men Sultan Mohd Jiwa telah dibenarkan membung undi di pusat tersebut.

Walau bagaimapun, Pihak SPR enggan untuk menandatangani borang loporan yang di buata oleh beliau.

“Borang laporan saya di tolak tanpa alasan dan mereka langsung tidak mengindahkannya,” kata Rozan kepada Suara Keadilan.

“Kami akan pergi membuat laporan ke Balai Polis Kuala Muda pada jam 3.30 Petang nanti,” tambah beliau.

N25 Bukit Selambau : Peratusan kemenangan Manikumar cerah

Suara Keadilan

Anna Yusof

SUNGAI PETANI, 7 April (sk) : CALON Pakatan Rakyat, S Manikumar tampak yakin ketika sampai di pusat membuang undi tepat jam 8.05 pagi di Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Taman Ria Jaya, di Sungai Petani, Kedah.

Beliau yang berbaju berbaju batik gelap, sempat bertemu dengan pengundi-pengundi lain dan bersalaman dengan mereka sebelum terus masuk diiringi tiga wakil Pakatan rakyat ke perkarangan sekolah menuju ke bilik tempat membuang undi.

Kemunculan beliau dari pusat membuang undi berkenaan dan disambut dengan tepukan dan sorakan dari kumpulan penyokong Pakatan Rakyat yang berada di luar kawasan sekolah terbabit sebelum menaiki kereta untuk melawat 22 tempat pembuangan undi lain di sekitar Bukit Selambau.

Menurut Manikumar, hari ini merupakan hari yang bersejarah dalam hidupnya secara peribadi kerana beliau keluar mengundi sebagai calon wakil rakyat KeADILan untuk Pakatan Rakyat.

“Saya berasa yakin akan memperolehi kemenangan dalam pilihanraya kecil Bukit Selambau. Apa yang kita capai hari ini adalah usaha daripada rakyat sendiri,” tambahnya lagi.

Beliau berkata sepanjang kempen pilihanraya kecil, beliau turun padang bertemu penduduk-penduduk di Bukit Selambau dan berasa bangga melihat sokongan serta kata-kata semangat yang diberikan oleh pengundi-pengundi di kawasan berkenaan.

Tambah beliau lagi, dapat disaksikan rata-rata rakyat di Bukit Selambau menyokong beliau khususnya Pakatan Rakyat.

Keadaan cuaca yang baik juga adalah antara faktor menyaksikan jumlah kedatangan undi setakat ini begitu memberangsangkan.

Kawasan N25 Bukit Selambau mempunyai 35,140 pengundi berdaftar di mana majoritinya adalah pengundi berbangsa Melayu, 50.2% diikuti kaum India 29.5% dan Cina 19.3%.

Kugan died of natural causes, no foul play

Malaysia Today

(The Star) – Suspected car thief A. Kugan died from acute congestion of the lungs due to acute inflammation of the heart muscles, compounded by blunt force trauma, an independent committee of medical specialists has announced.

The 10-man committee formed to investigate into differences in two post-mortem reports on Kugan unanimously agreed there was no evidence of thermal injuries to the skin on the back of the deceased as reported in the second post-mortem and was of the opinion the injuries on Kugan’s back were the result of repeated trauma by a blunt but flexible object, like a folded rubber hose.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Ismail Merican said the deceased was found to have an underlying acute myocarditis (inflammation of heart muscle) and the blunt force trauma could have led to acute renal failure.

“This (renal failure) had aggravated the acute myocarditis, resulting in acute pulmonary oedema or lung congestion. As for injuries on Kugan’s back, they were in fact patterned imprint injuries which had been caused by a blunt and flexible object.

Special probe: Dr Ismail announcing the findings of the independent committee at his office in Putrajaya Monday.

“There was no evidence that the deceased had been ‘branded’ or given repeated application of heat with an instrument or object. All body injuries noted on the deceased were insufficient, either individually or collectively to cause death directly,” he told a press conference yesterday.

Dr Ismail said it was also concluded that the discrepancy was not due to “foul reporting, misleading of information and neither was there any intention to hide information”, adding that the findings would be handed over to the Attorney-General’s Chambers today.

Kugan, 22, was detained by police on Jan 15 this year for alleged car theft but died five days later while in police custody.

An autopsy was performed on Jan 21 by the head of Serdang Hospital forensic unit, Dr Abdul Karim Tajuddin, who gave the cause of death as “acute pulmonary oedema”.

The family then requested Universiti Malaya Medical Centre to conduct a second post-mortem, which was performed on Jan 25 by Dr Prashant Samberkar. The second pathologist gave the provisional cause of death (pending toxicology report) as “acute renal failure due to rhabdomyolysis (the breakdown of muscle fibers resulting in the release of myoglobin into the bloodstream) due to blunt trauma to skeletal muscles”.

“The discrepancy in the reports were due to the absence of communications between the two pathologists, the misinterpretation of post-mortem changes and some of the injuries by the second pathologist (Dr Prashant) ,” he said.

Mahathir – the Empress Dowager of Prime Minister Najib

The Bukit Gantang by-election has shaped into a battle between one Mentri Besar vs two Prime Ministers.

The Mentri Besar is Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin, the popular and legitimate Perak MB and not the illegitimate usurper Datuk Zambry Abdul Kadir.

Ranged against him are the new Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak who had orchestrated the unethical, undemocratic, illegal and unconstitutional power grab in Perak and plunged the “silver state” into a political and constitutional stalemate in the past two months and the former Prime Minister of 22 years, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

I had described Mahathir as swiftly taking his place as the eminence grise in the Najib premiership with the quick repudiation of whatever there is of the Abdullah legacy in Umno and the fifth premiership in the country.

For Mahathir’s role in the national affairs of state under Prime Minister Najib, there are blog visitors who prefer to summon up the image of Empress Dowager Cixi, who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, ruling over China for 48 years from her husband’s death in 1861 to her own death in 1908.

Read more at: http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/04/07/mahathir-%E2%80%93-the-empress-dowager-of-prime-minister-najib/

Batang Ai: BN does not practise discrimination?

Anil Netto

The BN claims it does not practise discrimination in dishing out projects. Oh yeah? Read these news snippets and form your own conclusions.

BN does not practise discrimination: Masing

Borneo Post, April 1, 2009

Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president Dato Sri Dr James Masing said the Barisan Nasional (BN) does not practise ‘pilih kasih’ (favouritism) when it comes to disbursing funds for projects or allocating projects.

http://www.theborneopost.com/?p=49590

NCR land devt aimed at helping owners

Borneo Post, April 3, 2009

…On the by-election, Gramong said it was very important for the voters to make the right choice. He said the BN government, since 1963, had been faithfully dishing out development projects like schools, health centres, hospitals, roads, water and power supplies not only to towns but also rural areas. He said a lot could be achieved if they voted for the BN.

“Vote the opposition and you will be in the political wilderness. Your representative will be sitting with the other opposition members, shouting to have their voices heard. They will be blaming and criticising others for their own shortcomings and failures,” he said.

http://www.theborneopost.com/?p=49666