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Kamalanathan has earned the affection of Hulu Selangorians

Apr 29th, 2013

Kamalanathan has earned the affection of Hulu Selangorians

KUALA LUMPUR: Several voters in Hulu Selangor interviewed are hoping for P.Kamalanathan, their incumbent MP, to retain the seat when the May 5 polls conclude.

To them, though he only became their MP in 2010 after a by-election, Kamalanathan had served them well.

In an event at Bandar Sungai Buaya on April 25, The Mole caught up with some of the Barisan Nasional supporters from various ethnicities who turned up to endorse Kamalanathan as the candidate of their choice.

Ahmad Nisfu Hamid said: “We are here to give our full support to him (Kamalanathan) because as an MP he has done a fair bit to improve our livelihoods.”

“He has helped us in many ways but he can still do more as he only became the MP here in 2010.”

Ahmad Nisfu, in his 50s, has lived in Sungai Buaya for the last six years, and he expressed his desire to see Kamalanathan win again in Hulu Selangor.

His friend Shahhudin Hashim said he will vote for BN as he believes the party must retain its influence in Sungai Buaya.

“I would like him (Kamalanathan) to remain as our representative here because he is doing a good job so far,” said the 56-year-old.

Nevertheless, he hoped that Kamalanathan could help improve the livelihood of the people who are still lagging behind in terms of development.

Stall owner Mohd Nahar Shaari claims that the locals are in dire need for better infrastructure.

“We don’t even have a post office here, let alone a petrol station, many of us have to travel to Serendah which is about 10 minutes away to buy fuel.”

“We have no proper street lights especially on the road leading into Sungai Buaya from Rawang and due to that the place has become an accident prone area,” he added.

The 47-year-old added that the Hulu Selangor district council (MDHS) have yet to solve the problem despite various complaints being made.

Mohd Nahar however believes in the leadership of Kamalanathan and is confident that the latter will help to settle these matters once and for all.

Two youngsters described Kamalanathan as a ‘friendly MP’ who takes care of the needs of his people.

Zulfaqar Faiz Mohd Fairos, said, “He is very friendly and helpful, when there are problems he’s there to help us solve them.”

“My whole family will vote for him,” the 16-year-old added.

Zulfaqar’s friend Mohd Fadillah Muzaini also acknowledged the fact that Kamalanathan has been a good representative.

“He’s good and he works hard here. Every now and then he pays us a visit,” said the 17-year-old.

In 2010, during a by-election Kamalanathan defeated Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) candidate Datuk Zaid Ibrahim with a majority of 1,725 votes.

He is set to face a four-cornered fight against PKR candidate Khalid Jaafar and two independents, Razali Mokhtar and Datuk Seri Dr Edmund Santhara.

Hulu Selangor comprises 54 percent Malays, 27 percent Chinese and 19 percent Indians.

Source: MOLE

Ulamak chief says Pas is the biggest in PR. DAP to lose out because of Fernandez

Apr 29th, 2013

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Ulamak chief says Pas is the biggest in PR. DAP to lose out because of Fernandez

KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Ulamak chief Datuk Harun Taib says he fears that the DAP will be the one to lose out following its Johore deputy chairman Norman Fernandez’s damning remarks against Pas.

He said Pas is the biggest party in Pakatan Rakyat and what Fernandez had said against Pas may cause DAP to lose out on votes from Pas supporters.

Speaking to The Mole today Harun was commenting Fernandez’s statement urging Johoreans to “think hard and deep if PAS is really worthy of their votes” and that he “for one have finally made up my mind and am convinced that PAS does not deserve my vote.”

“As it is, Pas has the biggest number of support and it is increasing by days.”

“I fear that the DAP will suffer from the effect of his (Fernandez) statement and not us. DAP may lose out on Pas’ votes for such remarks.”

However, Harun said Pas will continue to campaign for Pakatan Rakyat.

“Even though he (Fernandez) asked people not to vote for Pas…let people say what they want. But for Pas, we will keep campaigning for people to vote Pakatan,” he added.

In his writing which was widely circulated, Fernandez asked the people of Johor to think thoroughly on whether Pas is worthy of their votes.

He further wrote: “In Johor, the Johor PAS continuous to maintain an elegant silence and have thus far has failed and refused to make a open and clear stand if it supports the imposition of hudud in Johor and if it will change the weekend from Sunday to Friday. In Johor, Johoreans including me as a voter, have a right to demand that Johor PAS state their stand.

What is certain is that PAS is clearly insistent and hell-bent in imposing its own values, idealism and policies on others and in truth despite the various overtures to non-muslims cares two hoots about non-muslims or the feelings of non-muslims.”

Harun said Pas will not demand Fernandez to apologise.

“It is up for him (Fernandez) to decide.”

Harun also said that it is up to the DAP whether to take action against Fernandez or not.

Source: MOLE

PSM says Pas supporters attacked its operation centre

Apr 29th, 2013

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KUALA LUMPUR: Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) says its Kota Damansara’s election operation centre was attacked by a trio of Pas supporters today.

In a telephone interview, its national treasurer A. Sivarajan told The Mole that the office was attacked by three individuals who he claims were from Pas.

When asked if he was sure the individuals were from Pas, Sivarajan said: “Yes, they are Pas members.”

Narrating the incident, Sivarajan said: “Around 2.20pm today, while I was in our bilik gerakan (operations centre) three guys dressed in Pas t-shirts started shouting at us alleging that we took down their party flags.”

“They were asking for our party chairman Dr Nasir’s (Dr Nasir Hashim) number and a few other numbers of our polling officers.”

“We told them to go and make a report to the Election Commission instead of coming to our office and making a big noise,” Sivarajan added.

According to Sivarajan the trio then started taking photographs of the place and left shortly in two cars and on one motorbike.

Sivarajan said he lodged a report about the incident at the Kota Damansara police station shortly after.

“After the report was made, the police came over to our centre and started their investigation.”

He also said that all the five PSM volunteers and himself who were present when the Pas supporters came were not harmed.

“This is actually the second incident…on nomination day (April 20), after Pas has announced to field their candidate in Kota Damansara, we had received a lot of calls and text messages informing us that a group of people were intending to attack us.”

“Fortunately nothing happened,” he said.

Sivarajan has also questioned the motive behind the incident as Pas who has agreed to withdraw its candidate from the Kota Damansara state constituency to make way for PSM’s Dr Nasir to contest under the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) ticket.

He said, ”Pas secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali already said that it will not field its candidate Razali Ismail to contest here and things were all good between PSM and Pas.”

“Yet, the Pas candidate was seen campaigning here, in areas such as the Pekan Subang market and Bandar Pinggiran Subang.”

“This is against the decision of the Pas headquarters, ” he added. Dr Nasir is facing a five-cornered fight against Barisan Nasional candidate Halimatun Saadiah Bohan and three independents Edrus Abdullah, Halmi Omar and A Suppiah.

In the last general election in 2008, Dr Nasir defeated Barisan Nasional candidate Zein Isma Ismail with a 1,075 majority.

There are 44,992 voters in Kota Damansara of which 56 percent are Malays, 29 percent Chinese and 13 per cent Indians.

PAS finally backs down on Kota Damansara seat

Apr 28th, 2013

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SELANGOR PAS has finally backed down from contesting the Kota Damansara state seat after almost a week of posturing and negotiations with PKR and Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM).

“After negotiations, I am announcing that for the Kota Damansara state seat, we shall revert to the status quo as before nomination day.

pas mustafa ali 070413 01 “The seat is allocated to PKR,” said PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali (left) at party headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.

As such, he said, the candidate contesting under the PKR banner for the state seat under the Subang parliamentary constituency will be the official Pakatan Rakyat representative.

Incumbent rep PSM chief Mohd Nasir Hashim (below) had earlier reached an agreement to vie for the seat under the PKR ticket, until PAS sprang a last minute surprise by fielding its own candidate Razali Ismail on nomination day.

As in other seats it has conceded to PKR, the PAS candidate will be instructed to stand down and publicly declare that he is withdrawing from the contest, while the party’s machinery will be told to campaign for the specified Pakatan candidate, said Mustafa.

NONE Asked on the possibility of resistance from the fielded PAS candidates and machinery to the stand-down orders, Mustafa dismissed such concerns.

Kota Damansara was one of seven seats that saw PAS and PKR at loggerheads, with both fielding their respective candidates on nominations day last week.

The six other seats were settled early this week, with PAS giving the Labuan parliamentary and Panti (Johor) and Sungai Acheh (Penang) state seats to its ally.

In exchange PKR gave PAS the Seberang Takir, Bukit Besi and Kota Putera state seats in Terengganu.

Kota Damansara was not resolved at the time because PAS claimed ideological differences with PSM was the stumbling block.

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Nurul Izzah is denying our right to vote,says Lembah Pantai voter

Apr 28th, 2013

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Nurul Izzah is denying our right to vote,says Lembah Pantai voter

KUALA LUMPUR: A Lembah Pantai voter feels that incumbent Nurul Izzah Anwar’s decision to seek an appeal following the dismissal of her application to strike out ‘dubious’ voters in the constituency as a blatant attempt to deny their right to vote.

The voter, 61-year-old Mohd Yahya Yusoff said : “I am not siding anyone on this issue but when Nurul Izzah brought our names up to be struck off in the judicial review, of course I feel the need to defend my rights.”

Nurul Izzah had recently sought for an appeal following the High Court’s dismissal of her application to compel the Election Commission (EC) to strike out “dubious” voters in the Lembah Pantai electoral roll.

A news report by The Sun stated: Meanwhile, in response to claims that Nurul Izzah was trying to remove genuine voters from the roll, her political secretary Fahmi Fadzil said the case was against the EC.

“You cannot claim that the judicial review is only meant for the Election Commission and the National Registration Department (NRD) when it is our voting right that’s at stake.”

Commenting on the news report Yahya said: “If it’s against the EC, why is the list of names are only restricted for Lembah Pantai?”

“Our names were stated in the list. If the court rules that our names to be struck off, it is us who will be denied our voting rights.”

When asked how he managed to get the name list of alleged phantom voters, Yahya said: “It is from a PKR insider who is sympathetic about our predicament.”

“I used to be a PKR supporter too. Some of my neighbours in PKR told me about this case and passed me the list to act upon.”

He also strongly denied claims that his movement ‘Gempur’ is a mere political tool adding that Gempur is formed only to defend the right of alleged phantom voters in Lembah Pantai to vote not only in the upcoming polls but also the future General Election.

Prior to this Yahya and more than 50 registered voters in Lembah Pantai gathered to protest against Nurul Izzah who had alleged that they are phantom voters in the area.

Yahya and other residents took the initiative to explain that they are legitimate voters who have voted numerous times in the constituency.

In response to a question on why he did not update his voting details to the EC, Mohd Yahya said: “I am an old man who lives here for 44 years. For my friends and I, as long as our name and address tallies with the voting place, that’s good enough.”

He further said that if Nurul Izzah is sincere in ensuring that the electoral roll of residents in Lembah Pantai is updated, there should be an effort to have awareness campaigns for it in his area.

“We are old folks. Not many of us are internet-savvy. We may take it for granted that we can vote here without updating our details with EC but we need to be informed of it too.”

“After all the election is only once in five years,” he added.

Mohd Yahya did not deny that several names in the list were voters who had passed away, but he said it is the next-of-kin’s duty to update it with the EC.

On March 22 this year, Nurul Izzah through her lawyer Edmund Bon has filed a judicial review, demanding the Election Commission to nullify the registration of 4,637 or seven per cent out of 72,533 voters in Lembah Pantai parliamentary seat.

Judge Datuk Seri Zakaria Sam reportedly dismissed the leave application for a judicial review filed by Nurul Izzah for a declaration that the refusal by the chief registrar of election to strike out the voters’ names in the principal electoral roll of Lembah Pantai in 2011 and the supplementary electoral roll for the second quarter of 2012 was illegal and invalid.

Nurul Izzah will be involved in a three-cornered fight to defend her seat. She is being challenged by Barisan Nasional’s Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin and independent Rusli Baba.

In the 2008 general election Nurul Izzah won the seat defeating BN’s Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil with a majority of 2,895 votes.

Source: MOLE

Only what is in PR manifesto

Apr 27th, 2013

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Only what is in PR manifesto – hudud not included

KUALA LUMPUR: Pas deputy president Mohamad Sabu or better known as Mat Sabu says Pas will only implement what is stated in the Pakatan Rakyat’s manifesto.

Mat Sabu told The Mole on Thursday: “We will only implement what is on the manifesto. That’s our promise for this election.”

Hudud is not in the Pakatan manifesto.

When asked to comment on the recent statement made by Pas deputy spiritual leader Datuk Dr Haron Din recently that Pakatan will implement hudud (the syariah criminal code) if the opposition wins the election, Mat Sabu said: “You have to ask him yourself.”

“I do not want to say anything because you and other media will twist it. It’s the media game over this issue,” said the Pendang parliamentary seat candidate for Pas.

Mat Sabu’s remark is contradicting to Haron’s, who had reportedly said that hudud will be implemented if Pakatan wins the 13^th General Election (GE) despite the objection from its partner, DAP.

He was quoted as saying: “I’m confident that DAP will accept hudud law because of its willingness to contest under the PAS symbol. However, this can only be done after Pakatan is given the mandate to rule the country.”

The Arau parliamentary seat candidate also said that Pakatan parties should give and take to work together.

The implementation of hudud is not mentioned in the opposition coalition’s manifesto which was unveiled on Feb 25 this year.

Another Pas leader, Khalid Samad agreed that Pas will follow what is accorded in the manifesto, but he also said that does not mean the party is not pursuing its hudud agenda.

Khalid said: “Obviously Pas is committed to its agenda but like I said before, we will only pursue it through democratic ways.”

“We need to get the people to debate and discuss on this matter in free and open society, which will only be achieved when Pakatan gets into power.”

Khalid said if it is proven that the public do not mind the implementation of hudud, “no right government in democracy will stand in its way.”

Meanwhile DAP chairman Karpal Singh reiterated that the party’s stand on hudud will not be changed even though it had initially agreed to use Pas’ logo to contest in the GE.

DAP initially contemplated using Pas and Parti Keadilan Rakyat’s (PKR) banners in the general election when the Registrar of Societies (ROS) did not recognise its central executive committee (CEC) line-up elected in the party elections last December.

A blogger known as Tunku Aisha had previously wrote that the exclusion of hudud in the manifesto shocked many Pas supporters.

“Perhaps in the final days before GE13, some Pas leaders might just try to sell the hudud issue to their supporters, then again, what is the use?

Fact is, Pas fail to influence PR to accept hudud. Hudud will forever remain as Pas’ dream and their party politics,” the post read.

Hindraf de facto leader P.Uthayakumar reportedly said that the Chinese voters in Bukit Raja are afraid that hudud will be implemented and that may cause Pakatan to lose the parliamentary seat.