A tough battle in Lembah Pantai


SHOWDOWN: Barisan Nasional is starting all out to wring a hottest civic chair in Kuala Lumpur behind from a opposition, which it won by a narrow domain in a 2008 ubiquitous election, writes Carisma Kapoor
LEMBAH Pantai, a subdivision in Kuala Lumpur hold by Parti Keadilan Rakyat's vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar, is considered one of a prohibited seats in a next ubiquitous election. Barisan Nasional will be fighting tough to win it back.
In a 2008 ubiquitous election, Nurul degraded BN's Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, who had hold a chair since 1995, by a relatively narrow domain of 2,895 votes.
Nurul, a first-time elected representative, is approaching to urge a subdivision with a little 56,000 voters, as good as will expected face Lembah Pantai Umno chief as good as Federal Territories as good as Urban Wellbeing Minister Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin.
In a new report, Raja Nong Chik conveyed his goal to competition a Lembah Pantai chair if he was between a candidates comparison by BN.
Asked whether it would be a plea to face Nurul, he pronounced it would be yet usually since she was an obligatory member of parliament.
As someone who had grown up in a area, Raja Nong Chik, however, welcomed a challenge.
"I am confident of winning a chair formed upon my use record as good as relations established over a past 25 years in a area, starting from my early days as an Umno Youth member," he said.
His years of impasse in a local governing body as good as issues of Lembah Pantai had helped him to assimilate improved a needs of residents.
"I'm contesting so which we can serve a people, not for alternative interests. we travel a talk, unlike a antithesis which criticises as good as walks divided yet offering any solutions,"! he said , adding which even yet he was not comparison as a claimant in a 2004 ubiquitous election, he had one after another serving a Lembah Pantai residents.
Raja Nong Chik stressed which he had settled several times which a usually chair he would like to competition was Lembah Pantai. This, despite being cautioned by a little which a chair was "not protected for a minister".
Raja Nong Chik's game plan would include operative hard, turun padang (going to a ground), listening to a people's problems, solution outstanding problems as good as facilitating improved vital as good as operative conditions for people inside of as good as outside Lembah Pantai.
"More importantly, we will try to support those in a area who have been left behind in developments," he said, referring to a disabled, single mothers, pensioners, traders, low- as good as medium-cost prosaic dwellers, a ill as good as students.
On Nurul's supporters who had spoken out about their preference which she competition in Permatang Pauh, Raja Nong Chik pronounced a suggestion had come about since Nurul had not served her subdivision for a little time.
"Nurul has usually turn active recently since a choosing is coming."
As for BN Lembah Pantai, he pronounced members would quarrel any antithesis claimant as good as afterward join their colleagues to help Federal Territories as good as a rest of a country.
Raja Nong Chik, however, pronounced it was up to a BN leadership to decide upon whether to field him.
Nurul claimed which she was not usually confident of maintaining a Lembah Pantai chair yet was also certain which a antithesis would take control of Putrajaya.
She pronounced a Election Commission had nonetheless to implement a suggestions by a antithesis as good as their allies for a giveaway as good as fair election.
Nonetheless! , Nurul said, a antithesis would continue to participate in a election, highlight abuses as good as work towards removing at slightest 75 per cent voter turnout.
Nurul pronounced "phantom busters" had been trained by a antithesis to use cameraphones to take note of suspicious electorate for legal action.
"We are advocating for general observers to perspective a electoral process."
On her efforts to "win over" electorate in a area, Nurul pronounced detached from relating to a people, she represented their voices in a "new culture of politics", where issues as good as not people drove legislation.
Responding to supporters who had elite her to competition in Permatang Pauh, a chair hold by her father, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, a 32-year-old pronounced she would obey her celebration even yet she had indicated which she would like to sojourn with her supporters in Lembah Pantai. -- (NST)
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