SUNGAI SIPUT: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak wants the Barisan Nasional (BN) machinery to wrest back Sungai Siput Parliamentary constituency after being under the opposition for the past 10 years.
“I would like to ask, is your representative doing his job? What has he done for the Sungai Siput people? ‘Yelek’..Nothing. If Indians there say ‘yelek’..nothing...what are you waiting for this time?
“You want pisang berbuah dua kali, tiga kali (this to happen again)? We all need a transformation in our area.
“Who can bring this transformation? Is it PSM? Swollen eyes party (PKR)? PAS? Who is capable? BN... In order to ensure victory, this May 9, Sungai Siput will change its administration (under BN),” he said.
Najib who is BN chairman said this in his speech during a ‘Hebatkan Negaraku’ gathering at the Sungai Siput Convention Centre here.
Also present were Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir, Sungai Siput parliament seat candidate Datuk Seri S.K. Devamany, Lintang state seat candidate Datuk Mohd Zolkafly Harun and Jalong state seat candidate Datuk Tan Lian Hoe.
“This ‘black area’ which is synonymous with Sungai Siput parliamentary before is no longer relevant because BN is ready to take over the seat.
“Before this, we lost 1-2 (won one seat, two seats lost) here, but this time I do not want 2-1, what I want is 3-0,” he said.
Najib said he had gone to all places from Perlis to Sabah and he had received positive feedbacks from BN machinery, as such Putrajaya would remain in BN’s hand on May 9.
During the event, Najib also pledged four gifts for the people of Sungai Siput should BN carry the Sungai Siput parliamentary seat in GE14.
* Sekolah Menengah Orang Asli in Lasah to be upgraded as the first Orang Asli boarding school in Malaysia;
* Islamic religious boarding school to be built in Lintang;
* A new SJKT Ladang Changkat Salak to be built for the Indian Community in Sungai Siput;
* A total of 500 units under the People’s Housing Project (PPR) to be built in Sungai Siput parliamentary constituency.
Najib said other gifts would be announced after May 9.
“We will together change Sungai Siput. I can’t do this alone. If we want to make changes, we need political power. We need to ensure that Putrajaya belongs to BN.
“We need to ensure that Perak belongs to BN and Sungai Siput too,” he told thousands of party members and supporters, who earlier gave Najib a rousing welcome.
In GE13, Devamany lost the parliamentary seat with a majority of 2,793 votes in a three-cornered fight against Dr. Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj, who contested under the PKR ticket, and an independent candidate S. Nagalingam.
Report by Shamsul Kamal Amarudin, Maiamalina Mohamed Amin and Zahratulhayat Mat Arif