Umno to counter Pakatan Hari Raya blitz with grassroots campaign


By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal
August 14, 2011

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug fourteen Umno leaders have dismissed Pakatan Rakyats (PR) pre-election debate plan for Hari Raya, expressing certainty that their grassroots strength alone is enough to quell their domestic foes from influencing people during a festive occasion.

The sovereign antithesis suggested recently that it programmed upon campaigning for a Malay opinion ahead of a next ubiquitous elections by distributing specially-prepared report kits, pamphlets as good as CDs to farming folk in kampungs during Hari Raya.

The plan, according to PR leaders similar to Azmin Ali would be to trumpet PRs remodel agenda in areas they believe has singular access to information. PR leaders have pronounced they would have full use of a Hari Raya holidays to experience in balik kampung programmes aimed at spreading a PR word.

Umno leaders remain unimpressed by PRs plans, as good as will launch a counter-offensive grassroots debate to rebut any allegations brought by a opposition. The same leaders have also claimed that PRs pre-polls strategies were not brand new as good as that Umno had already utilised similar debate plan in a past.

The difference in between Pakatan as good as Umno is that they have been only formulation these campaigns now. We have already been engaging with people upon a grassroots level via a year. Our major regard is that a report since by Pakatan upon current issues similar to Bersih as good as a manage to buy is misleading...therefore you have a own networking complement all set up as good as ever ready to go, Umno MP Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan told The Malaysian Insider.

Umnos advantage over PR, claimed a Kota Belud MP was a grassroots machinery where a celebration has over 20,000 branches via a entire nation with a exception of Sarawak.

Umno h! as an de termined networking system, either the! re is el ections or not. We have over 20,000 branches in a country, even in areas where a MP or assemblyman is from MCA or MIC. Even in Pakatan Rakyat building areas similar to Jelutong, you have a own branches- to have a dissemination of report as good as campaigning smooth.

Go to almost any part of Malaysia as good as you will find an Umno branch, even in antithesis strongholds. This is because you have been ready, when Pakatan makes a inapplicable designation or fails to attend to a needs of their constituents, you will take up that responsibility, pronounced Abdul Rahman.

The Barisan Nasional (BN) backbencher pronounced that Umno cemented BNs manifestos by localised programmes similar to community gotong-royong events as good as internal in progress classes organized by a Malay party.

We have a actuality sheets as good as CDs as well. What PR is you do is not space station science...Azmin himself used to be an Umno guy, most of Pakatans strategies have been a (Umno)s inventions, combined Abdul Rahman.

Umno autarchic council part of Datuk Idris Harun told The Malaysian Insider that a celebration grassroots will focus upon ceramahs as good as other amicable gatherings during a Ramadan month to list down a various problems faced by PR from state supervision issues to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahims sex video as good as on-going sodomy trial.

We will explain as good as indicate out a wrongdoings of PR, as good as how they have been being pure opportunists using issues similar to Bersih as good as a price hikes to get voter support. Umno needs to uncover people that a antithesis is irresponsible, of how they have been willing to imperil inhabitant security by protests to get votes.

We will explain, to have farming folk assimilate that a little issues similar to price hikes for example is a global phenomenon as good as that a supervision is you do their best to address this issue, pronounced a T! angga Ba tu MP.

Idris certified that Umno had been as well complacent with a debate plan before 2008, that resulted in BN being denied a prevalent two-thirds majority.

We will not ! be compl acent this time around. Every opinion counts, he added.


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