The busiest partial of a Nibong Tebal subdivision is Jawi town. Pictures by K.E.Ooi
NIBONG TEBAL, Oct twenty-six Located upon a southern partial of Seberang Perai, this tiny municipality of about 50,000 people is almost similar to a final limit of mainland Penang. That's because there is a spot in this still tiny locale where you just need to take a singular step brazen as well as you would have left Penang as well as stepped right into Perak.
Perhaps it is due to a stretch from a busy city of George Town yet not most Penang folk would try here solely for foodies vigilant upon perplexing out a town's famous Teochew crab porridge, boiled baby octopus as well as curried freshwater prawns.
Far from a sea, it might seem bizarre which this mainland township's fame is tied to "seafood" yet deliberation a Krian River runs by it, a sand crabs as well as freshwater prawns have been patently local catches.
Jawi is a busiest partial of a total subdivision where there is a concentration of shoplots, food courts, wet markets, restaurants, supermarkets as well as supervision offices.
Nibong Tebal is widespread out over three state constituencies Jawi, Sungai Acheh as well as Sungai Bakap with opposite racial groups in opposite villages.
The total of Nibong Tebal is do! ne up of about 55 per cent non-Malays as well as about 45 per cent Malays, with a infancy of a Malays located in a Sungai Acheh area where cultivation is a categorical industry.
Jawi locale is a categorical heart with a rows of shophouses.
Previously, a Nibong Tebal parliamentary chair as well as a three state seats, Sungai Acheh, Sungai Bakap as well as Jawi, were all Barisan Nasional (BN) seats.
In a 2004 ubiquitous election, Umno (BN) visitor Datuk Zainal Abidin Osman won a parliamentary chair with a 6,005-vote infancy whilst a three state seats additionally saw BN winning with outrageous majorities yet in 2008, BN usually managed to keep a Sungai Acheh state chair with a slim infancy of 250 votes as well as lost a rest.
This coming election, Zainal Abidin is sloping to be a a singular to try to win a chair behind for BN even yet a current MP, Tan Tee Beng, who won a chair upon a PKR ticket, is now an eccentric MP.
Zainal Abidin is sloping to be a BN claimant for a Nibong Tebal parliamentary seat.
A local boy, Zainal Abidin's family home is located in a singular of a villages here yet other than to his fellow villagers, he is not which viewable in a non-Malay community.
Instead, he mostly appears during BN functions with Nibong Tebal BN co-ordinator Tan Cheng Liang, who is additionally former Jawi state rep! resentat ive as well as sloping to competition a Jawi state seat, purportedly to uncover a united BN front.
It is viewable which Nibong Tebal has been "under attack" by BN which is vigilant upon winning a dual state seats as well as a parliamentary a singular behind this time around.
This year, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced a RM8.5 million allocation for Nibong Tebal for growth projects such as office office building a whole of a multi-purpose hall in Nibong Tebal (RM3 million), repainting of apartments (RM2 million), repair of houses in Indian as well as Chinese villages (RM2 million) as well as rebuilding of Sekolah Agama Rakyat Al-Amin (RM1.8 million).
Fishing is an attention in a area as a Krian River runs by Nibong Tebal.
There was additionally a "promotional blitz" of sorts when a MCA launched a Jom Masuk Kampung (Let's Enter The Villages) roadshow in Penang during Nibong Tebal with all of a tip MCA care spending a day during assorted villages in a constituency.
More recently, BN allocated a serve RM3 million, upon tip of a RM1 million it had earlier allocated, to a office office building fund of SMJK Jit Sin II which is located in a constituency. The propagandize is in a surrounded by of raising RM30 million for a office office building fund.
But all this attention by BN does not seem to impress most of a constituents. "We have been not tiny young kids who can be gratified by offerings of candy as well as candies. Do they consider us stupid?" a proprietor pronounced when asked if they feel indebted to BN for all a something good to eat it has been handing out to a constituency. 
He pronounced it was not unequivocally about a individual member parties any some-more yet some-more about BN versus Pakatan Rakyat (PR). "Even if PR were to put a PAS claimant for a parliamentary seat, you am certain PR will still win a seat," he said. 
A PKR member pronounced electorate in Nibong Tebal were not in a slightest bit angry with PKR over Tan Tee Beng leaving a celebration as well as apropos a BN-friendly eccentric MP. "In fact, electorate might construe this as an additional dirty trick by BN as well as this might just anger them some-more so this could mean some-more votes for PKR," he said.
More Barisan Nasional (BN) | Pakatan Rakyat (PR) | Sociopolitics Plus |
After vocalization to a villagers, it is clear which a ubiquitous sentiment seems to be a singular of disgust, beating as well as even hatred for BN as well as a leaders.
"They consider you have been slow-thinking villagers who do not know how to access a Internet to get a genuine story behind their crime as well as excesses? There they have been spending a money similar to their own as well as afterwards when elections come, they fake to give us tiny titbits as if it is from their own pocket," a singular Jawi proprietor said.
Many of them pronounced they would not give BN an additional possibility to "cheat" as well as "lie" to them. "If you see any of them, you spin around as well as travel away. you feel it is unequivocally time which you changed a total sovereign government, not usually shift a state assemblymen as well as MP," pronounced an aged proprietor who's been following a political stage closely by a news as well as a Internet.
A still encampment in Nibong Tebal, where a citizens is done up of about 55 per cent non-Malays as well as about 45 per cent Malays,
He combined which a scare strategy by BN about hudud did not spin a non-Malays off PR yet instead make them even some-more disgusted with BN. "Again, they seem to consider you have been fools. We all know hudud is usually for Muslims so because should you even be fearful of something which has nothing to do with us?"
Zainal Abidin is approaching to go conduct to conduct with Deputy Chief Minister you Datuk Mansor Othman, a Penang PKR chief. Mansor is a incumbent ! Penanti state representative as well as it seems he's destined for bigger things, such as a Cabinet in front of if PR succeeds in a bid to win Putrajaya.
Mansor might be a PR claimant for Nibong Tebal.
He pronounced this might be because Mansor might be selected to competition this chair as he is a PKR state arch as well as a current emissary arch minister. "Having someone some-more 'established' as well as experienced will be an value to PKR," he said.
Earlier there was talk which Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim longed for to take this chair yet he has reliable which he will go on to mount in Permatang Pauh. There is additionally talk of Anwar's second daughter, Nurul Nuha, being due as a claimant for Nibong Tebal.
Mansor additionally reportedly reliable which Nurul Nuha's name was listed as a possible claimant for Nibong Tebal.
So, will it be a relatively new Nurul Nuha or will it be Mansor? According to a voter, it doesn't unequivocally matter.
"As prolonged as it is Pakatan Rakyat, you will vote for a claimant yet you do not wish an additional frog so a celebration better put someone reliable there," pronounced a PKR member. Despite a certain reactions PR has been removing from electorate there, a grassroots member pronounced it would still be a difficult fight.
"We have been not so disturbed about a non-Malay votes yet winning a Malay votes can be difficult so it will be a close call," h! e predic ted.
Read More @ Source More Barisan Nasional (BN) | Pakatan Rakyat (PR) | Sociopolitics Plus |
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
No comments:
Post a Comment