KUALA LUMPUR: DAP is now akin to a ‘cat on a hot tin roof’ after its move to use the PKR logo in the 14th General Election has sparked uproar among its own supporters.
DAP Labour Bureau vice-chairman Amran Ahmad said the party is now in a state of chaos upon realising the possibility that its supporters may not vote for the PKR logo on polling day.
“DAP was previously struggling to deal with their decision to use the PKR logo. And now, as polling day is upon us, they are still grappling with the same issue.
“They are especially afraid that the elderly Chinese will not vote for PKR in GE14 when they do not see the DAP logo on the ballot paper,” he said.
Amran said DAP’s actions in trying to secure Malay votes appear to have backfired, much to the party’s detriment. As such, he advised the people not to cast their votes for PKR.
“A vote for PKR means we are handing the country over to DAP, who are only using Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as their puppet,” he said.
On Monday, Negri Sembilan Barisan Nasional chief, Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan, had described DAP’s decision to forgo its logo in favour of PKR’s as one that would cost the party dearly.
“I was told that the DAP flags were raised in their ceramah. I think Lim Kit Siang is starting to regret this; he initially thought the Chinese votes were already in the bag, but he has only succeeded in confusing the Chinese voters. The urban voters may be aware of this but not the rural ones,” he said.
Meanwhile, DAP’s former Malay-Islam Affairs strategic director, Mohamad Razali Abdul Rahman, said DAP’s act of seeking to gain Malay votes has only succeeded in sparking outrage among its supporters.
“They know that the Chinese are dissatisfied. Why? Because the logo (rocket) is their party’s symbol. Their symbol can be so easily discarded just to grab the Malay votes.
“And at the same time, DAP have failed to pull in the Malay votes and even incurred the wrath of the Chinese. So they had to go around explaining to the Chinese that if you vote for the PKR logo, it’s the same as voting for DAP.
“The majority of the Chinese folk I’ve met are clearly displeased with this turn of events. They figure that if DAP can let go of its logo so easily, what else are they willing to sacrifice.”
KUALA LUMPUR: Life-long DAP member Amran Ahmad Nor is urging Malaysians to vote for any party, but PKR, tomorrow.
He said a vote for PKR was a vote for DAP and added that PKR’s prime ministerial candidate Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was only a puppet.
He said DAP would hold the majority of the parliamentary seats and their members would dominate five major ministries after sacrificing the post of prime minister and deputy prime minister to the Malays.
He told PKR supporters that Dr Mahathir would never hand over the prime ministerial position to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim so long as his son “Boboi” (Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir) was here to continue his legacy.
“Do not allow yourself to be manipulated and deceived by DAP’s propaganda,” he said in a statement today.
“Remember, our people will be neglected, insulted and tortured every day because voting for PKR will allow Pakatan Harapan to be controlled by DAP to govern Malaysia.”
Amran, who is the son of the late DAP national vice-chairman Ahmad Nor, said the people wanted a more progressive and better Malaysia, but not at the expense of the Malays.
He said political revenge, hate, religion and racism were at the core of Pakatan Harapan.
Amran said 90 per cent of DAP candidates were Christians and their religious agenda would be given priority if they came to power.
“What will happen to our religion (Islam)? I urge Malaysians not to take this risk. You will regret it when your race is marginalised, the prices of goods do not fall but go up instead and the country is always in chaos,” he added.
“My final words, please vote for any party other than PKR tomorrow because one vote for PKR means you are giving Malaysia to DAP.”
Dr Mahathir is PKR’s candidate for the Langkawi parliamentary constituency, while his son Mukhriz is contesting in Jerlun. Both seats are in Kedah.
Meanwhile, Anwar is serving out his last few days in Sungai Buloh prison until his release date next month.
This is because the BN has fielded a newcomer and there is talk of a split among PPB members in the constituency over the BN’s choice of candidate.
KUCHING: PKR’s Willie Mongin is a political workhorse and is also known as a fighter who is admired by his supporters in the Bidayuh enclave of Puncak Borneo.
This is Mongin’s second attempt to wrest Puncak Borneo from BN. In 2013, he was up against PBB veteran and deputy federal minister James Dawos and didn’t fare that well. Mongin lost after securing 10,740 votes against Dawos, who garnered 20,461 votes.
Many expect the Puncak Borneo contest to be different this time.
Following Dawos’s announcement that he was retiring early last year, there was a scramble for the seat among PBB leaders in the constituency. There were not less than eight serious contenders.
A political observer, who declined to be named, said the intense lobbying for the seat by BN had caused a split among PBB supporters and this could cause some of them to vote for the opposition.
He said given such a fluid situation, the two main contenders, Willie Mongin and BN’s Genot Sibek @ Jeannoth Sinel, would have an even chance of winning. The third candidate is STAR’s Buln Ribos.
Although Genot Sibek was a political greenhorn, Mongin said he still had to face the might of the BN election machinery
“I am still the underdog because there is no way I can match BN’s resources. But my supporters and voters can be assured that I will fight on till May 9. Make no mistake about that,” he told FMT.
Puncak Borneo, formerly Mambong, is a Bidayuh-majority parliamentary seat where 65% of the electorate are non-Muslim Bumiputeras.
It also has a sizeable 27% Chinese voter population. Malays make up 12% of the total 42,344 voters.
Sarawak PKR has tagged Puncak Borneo as one PBB seat which is not impossible to penetrate.
