KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor, no stranger to controversy, has courted trouble again.
This time the Kedah menteri besar has questioned the ability of women to become the people's representative in Sik.
Sanusi was shown making the comments, obviously aimed at the Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Harapan candidates for Sik, in a video clip which has since gone viral.
"In Sik, there are many men in Umno. Yet, the candidates (from BN and PH) are women. It is not that I'm demeaning women. (But) in Sik, a rural area with many people in need, they would seek help from the 'wakil rakyat' at all kinds of times.
"Will they be able to do so (if the elected representative is a woman)? I don't think so. At 3am (if they're woken up by constituents seeking their help), we can imagine their hair would be messy.
"How are they going to help victims of floods, for instance? It would take them more than two hours just to get ready," he was shown saying in the clip.
It was not known when the clip was recorded.
The Sik parliamentary seat will see a three-cornered fight come Nov 19.
Sanusi is a Pas member and the party's coalition Perikatan Nasional is fielding Ahmad Tarmizi Sulaiman, while BN is represented by Maizatulakmam Othman and PH by Datuk Latifah Md Yatim.