Najib: Bring Sungai Siput back to Barisan
SUNGAI SIPUT: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak wants the Barisan Nasional machinery to wrest the Sungai Siput parliamentary seat from the opposition.
“I’d like to ask, is your representative doing his job? What has he done for the Sungai Siput people? Illai (nothing in Tamil) If Indians there say illai... what are you waiting for this time?
“You want pisang berbuah dua kali, tiga kali (this to happen again)? We need a transformation in our area. Who can bring this transformation? Is it PSM (Parti Sosialis Malaysia)? ‘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).”
The constituency has been under opposition control for the past 10 years.
Najib, who is BN chairman, said this at the ‘Hebatkan Negaraku’ event here yesterday.
“This ‘black area’, which is synonymous with the Sungai Siput parliamentary (seat) 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.”
Najib said he had gone from Perlis to Sabah and he had received positive feedback from the state’s respective BN machinery, that Putrajaya would remain in BN’s hand on May 9.
During the event, Najib pledged four gifts for Sungai Siput residents should BN carry the Sungai Siput parliamentary seat in GE14.
Firstly, SM Orang Asli in Lasah will be upgraded as the first Orang Asli boarding school;
Secondly, an Islamic religious boarding school will be built in Lintang;
Thirdly, a new SJK(T) Ladang Changkat Salak would be built for the Indian community here;
And finally, 500 units under the People’s Housing Project will be built in the Sungai Siput parliamentary constituency.
Najib said other gifts would be announced after May 9.
“We’ll change Sungai Siput together . 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 here,
In GE13, BN’s Sungai Siput parliamentary seat candidate Datuk Seri S.K. Devamany lost the parliamentary seat by 2,793 votes in a three-cornered fight against PSM’s Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj, who had contested under the PKR ticket, and an independent candidate, S. Nagalingam.