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| Bagan Pinang PAS to drop daily bombshells on Isa |
| Written by Chua Sue-Ann | |||
| Sunday, 04 October 2009 22:55 | |||
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During a press conference today, Salahuddin ticked off BN for promoting Isa as a "local candidate" because the ruling coalition could not justify its candidate's integrity and cleanliness from corruption. The opposition has been harping on Isa's sacking as Umno vice-president and the three-year suspension from the party after he was found guilty for being involved in money politics during the 2004 Umno election. Today, Salahuddin drew attention to an abandoned bus station project in Linggi, a state constituency previously held by Isa when the latter was menteri besar. "It is an open secret that Umno and BN only benefitted their cronies, not the people," Salahuddin said, adding that the party will today reveal another issue related to drainage systems. Salahuddin also noted that Isa was born in Melaka whereas PAS' candidate Zulkefly Mohamad Omar hailed from Lenggeng in Negri Sembilan. PAS' election operations director for the Bagan Pinang polls Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad said the party had some 13 issues lined up for the eight days of campaigning. Met by reporters later, Isa slammed PAS for speaking about the purported abandoned projects without knowing the reasons behind the projects' failures. "They should talk about what the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) would do rather than focus on what I failed to do. "If you only want to mention the problems and (hope) it would solve things, I could also do that," Isa told reporters when met during a lunch function in Kampung Teluk Kemang. Speaking later at the Port Dickson Polytechnic College, Isa admitted there were "small problems" with the government but maintained that these issues had been played up by the opposition to seem "as if the issues cannot be corrected". Isa also told PAS to first look at Kelantan, which PAS controls, before criticising the BN government in Negri Sembilan, charging that Negri Sembilan was more developed than Kelantan. "Tell me what the opposition says, I will answer," Isa told reporters. Isa, who is Teluk Kemang Umno division chief, also turned the tables on PAS on whether only a local candidate can facilitate development for Bagan Pinang. "PAS is in a dilemma because it cannot field a local candidate so they try to cover up their problems by raising this issue," Isa said. On another matter, Salahuddin said Umno supreme council member Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, who alleged he was beaten up by PAS supporters during nominations last Saturday, was lying and seeking "cheap publicity". Salahuddin said he met Abdul Azeez on Saturday and the latter did not look like he had been bashed by nine PAS Youth members, as claimed. According to Salahuddin, PAS will tomorrow meet the Election Commission to present a list of grouses on postal votes in Bagan Pinang but remained tight-lipped on the issues to be raised. Polling for the Bagan Pinang by-election is scheduled for Oct 11. The state seat fell vacant following the death of its Umno incumbent Azman Mohammad Noor on Sept 4. He won the seat in the 2008 general election after defeating PAS' Ramli Ismail with a majority of 2,333 votes.
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