(KIRI) MALCOM Mussen Lamoh (kanan) bersama Timbalan Presiden PBB, Datuk Seri Abang Johari Tun Openg (kiri) dan Presiden PRS, Datuk Seri James Masing (tengah) bersama penyokong meraikan kemenangan BN di Kompleks Sukan Lubok Antu malam tadi. – UTUSAN/ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE
(KANAN) Datuk Seri Ir. Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin (tengah) bersama Timbalan Presiden Pas, Nassaruddin Mat Isa mengangkat tangan setelah memenangi Pilihan Raya Parlimen Bukti Gantang di Dewan Perbandaran Taiping, malam tadi. – UTUSAN/Ahmad Zakki Jilan
Barisan Nasional (BN) kekalkan kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Batang Air, Sarawak.
Pakatan pembangkang pertahankan kerusi Parlimen Bukit Gantang, Perak dan DUN Bukit Selambau, Kedah.
Keputusan status quo sama seperti kedudukan dalam pilihan raya umum lalu.
Semua calon Bebas hilang wang pertaruhan.
Ramai pengundi bukan Melayu Bukit Gantang dan Bukit Selambau sokong pembangkang.
(Analisis) : Sah! rakyat memilih untuk terus bersama Pakatan Rakyat bagi dua kerusi pilihan raya kecil Parlimen Bukit Gantang dan Dun Bukit Selambau.
Dalam keputusan rasmi Parlimen Bukit Gantang, calon PAS, Dato’ Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin meraih 21,860 undi, manakala calon BN, Ismail Saffian mendapat 19,071 undi, dan calon Bebas, Kamarul Ramizu Idris hanya 62 undi. Dengan itu Nizar diisytihar menang dengan majoriti 2,789 undi.
Sementara calon KeADILan, S Manikumar menang dengan 12,632 undi, BN 10,229. Majoriti 2,403 undi.
Keputusan dua bukit yang sangat menggetirkan ini membawa satu lagio dimensi nbaru kepada politik tanahair tatkala kononnya Umno mahu melakukan ‘reform’ selepas metabalkan Dato’Seri Najib Tun Razak selaku Presiden baru mereka.
Walaupun pada awalnya ramai penganalisis politik menjangkakan Najib memberi suntikan baru kepada dunia politik Umno/Bn, malangnya keputusan dua bukit sama sekali menafikan perihal analisa awal itu.
PAS dan KeADILan menang dalam suasana Harakah dan Suara Keadilan digantung penerbitannya di awal kempen, ditamnbah lagi dengan larangan kempen membicarakan isu Altantuya Shaariibu dan kontroversi keputusan Sultan Perak.
Namun menarik untuk diperkatakan tentang satu teori yang dikemukakan oleh pensyarah UKM, Dr Kamaruzzaman Yusof dalam rancangan Analisis Awani sebentar tadi mengenai kehadiran Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad berkempen bagi pihak Umno/BN.
Mudah sahaja, kata Kamaruzzaman kehadiran Tun Mahathirdi Bukit Gantang membawa impak negatif kepada Umno/BN yang pada awalnya memperlihatkan peluang cerah untuk menang.
Situasi sangat berbeza pada pilihan raya umum Mac lalu apabila kehadiuran kritikan dari Tun Mahathir amat memberi kesan kepada pola pengundian.
Namun di Bukit Gantang, kehadiran semula Tun Mahathir nyata tidak membantu Umno/Bn meraih sokongan mengembalikan status Bukit Gantang sebagai kubu kuat BN satu masa lalu.
Tun Mahathir sangat diketahui perihal politiknya mutakhir ini masuk semula ke dalam Umno apabila Najib menjadi Presiden dan Abdullah Ahmad Badawiu berundur dari PM.
Mahathir adalan antara individu paling lantang mengecam kepimpinan Abdullah dengan pelbagai istilah diberikan kepada bekas PM itu antaranya ‘penidur’; ‘kerajaan tiga beranak’; dan kerajaan yang ada ‘penasihat tingkat empat’.
Usaha menjatuhkan Abdullah antaranya didukung kuat Mahathir yang hari ini nyata menampakkan sokongan padu kepada Najib sebaik sahaja anak didiknya itu jadi Presiden Umno dan PM.
Licik sungguh permainan Mahathir dan Najib, hingga Abdullah yang mempunyai penasihat bijak di ‘tingkat empat’ Putrajaya pun tidak terhidu akan sudahnya begini.
Abdullah jatuh dalam keadaan yang paling menyedihkan, diherdik kawan (Umno) dan dicaci lawan selain pada zamannya juga berlaku krisis ekonomi yang amat dahsyat.
Najib mengambil alih dengan ‘senyuman’ sinis yang pastinya ada ‘udang sebalik batu’ dengan pembebasan 13 tahanan ISA dan penarikan semula larangan terbitan akhbar Harakah dan Suara Keadilan.
Seperti kata Ketua Penerangan PAS, Mahfuz Omar pelantikan Najib selaku PM hanyalah lantikan atas dasar kemelut yang berlaku dalam Umno.
Sebaliknya dihati rakyat Najib bukanlah pilihan yang ditunggu kerana imej negatif membayangi pelantikan PM keenam itu yang bakal mentadbir dengan nasihat ‘first lady’ (Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor) yang mencetus kontroversi.
Najib menjadi PM selepas Umno/BN berhadapan dengan kemelut kecemasan setelah kalah besar dalam pilihan raya umum ke-12; pilihan raya kecil Kuala Terengganu dan Permatang Pauh.
Justeru kelihatan Najib amat khuatir BN di bawah kepimpinannya sukar mendapat kepercayaan baru rakyat bahawa beliau akan mampu mebawa perubahan dengan slogan �One Malaysia�nya.
Langkah popular Najib hanya dilihat sebagai langkah terdesak didalam usaha untuk mendapat kepercayaan rakyat dengan mengumumkan tiga perkara ini didalam ucapan rasminya yang pertama yang disiarkan melalui media perdana.
Namun, keikhlasan Najib untuk menyuburkan demokrasi di Malaysia masih disangsikan oleh ramai pihak.
Najib bukan orang baru didalam politik, beliau telah berada dalam kepimpinan Umno/BN sejak lebih dari 30 tahun yang lalu.
Pemikiran, gaya, cara, budaya dan hidup Najib telah digelumangi dengan cara dan etika Umno/BN, akta zalim ISA sebenarnya tetap akan terus menjadi snjata utama jika beliau terdesak nanti.
Pembebasan Harakah dan Suara Keadilan ketika kempen pilihan raya kecil masuk fasa akhir hanya helah besar Najib, sedangkan pada awalnya sekatan adalah untuk menafikan hak kempen dua akhbar ini.
Nah hari ini segala strategi memulihkan imej Najib melalui tiga pilihan raya kecil nyata tidak mendatangkan kesan, dan dariu awal lagi ada benarnya penafian Timbalan Presiden Umno, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin bahawa PRK ini bukan referendum rakyat menolak Najib.
Pastinya Muhyiddin dapat merasakan rakyat akan menolak BN di dua bukit, dan akhirnya terpaksa membujat kenyataan bahawa keputusan PRK bukan referendum rakyat.
Jalan politik Najib pastinya berliku, kekalahan di dua kerusi disemenanjung bakal menjadi buah tangan Pakatan Rakyat untuk lebih kerap menyerang Najib atas kegagalan pertama pilihan raya ketika Umno di bawah jagaannya.
Biarpun ramai yang memilih untuk tidak menyatakan ia referendum rakyat tetapi peristiwa dua bukit pada 7 April 2009 pastinya titik gelap permulaan karier Najib selaku Presiden Umno.
Jika benar Najib berani dalam menghadapi kegetiran politik, pastinya cabaran yang dibuat Mahfuz agar adakan pilihan raya kecil negeri Perak jika Nizar menang prk Bukit Gantang, pastinya disahut kelak.
Namun apakah hayat politik Najib lebih singkat berbanding Abdullah, masa akan menentukannya. _
SUNGAI PETANI: Calon Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) S Manikumar menang pilihan raya kecil Dewan Undangan Negeri Bukit Selambau dengan meraih 12,632 undi, menewaskan calon Barisan Nasional (BN) S Ganesan dan 13 calon Bebas lain, dengan memperolehi majoriti 2,403 undi.
Manikumar memperoleh 12,632 undi manakala calon BN, Datuk S Ganesan, 49, mendapat 10,229 undi dalam pertandingan paling ramai calon dalam sejarah pilihan raya negara.
Semua 13 calon Bebas hilang wang deposit selepas gagal mendapat undi minimum satu per lapan daripada keseluruhan undi, sekali gus mencatatkan satu lagi sejarah sebagai pilihan raya paling ramai calon hilang wang deposit.
S Manikumar baru sekejap, jam 10: 45 mini malam diumumkan sebagai pemenang di DUN BukitSelambat. Beliau menang dengan majoriti 2,403. DI BUKIT Selambau hujan masih turun. Keputusan pilihan raya DUN Bukit Selambau masih belum diumumkan lagi. Mengapa? Apakah ada sesuatu yang misteri berlaku di sana? Kira-kira ham 9:00 tadi dua orang lelaki telah ditangkap dan diserahkan kepada polis kerana dikatakan membawa tong yang mengandungi kertas undi palsu. Sehingga ini belum dapat dipastikan apakah status dua lelaki berkenaan.
Sementara itu pelapor dari Bukti Selambau memberi tahu PKR dikatakan menang dengan majoriti 2,375 undi. Apa bila ditanya apakah keputusan sengaja dilewatkan, pelapor itu tidak menafikan dan ada tanda-tanda ke arah itu. [dlm perjalan 10:10 pm 07/04/09]
DI BUKIT Selambau hujan masih turun. Keputusan pilihan raya DUN Bukit Selambau masih belum diumumkan lagi. Mengapa? Apakah ada sesuatu yang misteri berlaku di sana?
Kira-kira ham 9:00 tadi dua orang lelaki telah ditangkap dan diserahkan kepada polis kerana dikatakan membawa tong yang mengandungi kertas undi palsu. Sehingga ini belum dapat dipastikan apakah status dua lelaki berkenaan.
Sementara itu pelapor dari Bukti Selambau memberi tahu PKR dikatakan menang dengan majoriti 2,375 undi. Apa bila ditanya apakah keputusan sengaja dilewatkan, pelapor itu tidak menafikan dan ada tanda-tanda ke arah itu. [dlm perjalan 10:10 pm 07/04/09]
SUNGAI PETANI 7 April – Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) kini mendahului Barisan Nasional (BN) di Bukit Selambau dengan memperoleh 1,712 undi berbanding BN 1,142 undi.
Keputusan awal tersebut adalah berdasarkan penjumlahan undi melibatkan 11 daripada 65 saluran mengundi sehingga kini. – Utusan
5.36 pm Amiruddin reports that PKR’s chances are bright in Bukit Selambau, with a 70:30 chance of victory.
5.35 pm Batang Ai: Based on the early count, BN and PKR are neck-and-neck. BN is leading PKR by 331 to 300. Unofficial results from the following polling stations: Ulu Engkari – BN 42, PKR 33 Bertik – BN 107, PKR 47 Sempang – BN 37, PKR 52 Delok – BN 86, PKR 21 Mengiling – BN 59, PKR 147 Gugu – BN 59, PKR 149, Krang Mong – BN 88, PKR 15. BN is still leading.
5.00 pm Polling officially closes at all stations at Batang Ai, Bt Selambau and Bt Gantang.
4.58 pm This is Perak Speaker Sivakumar who has just arrived in Air Kuning, Bukit Gantang.
4.56 pmTwo more ballot boxes arrive at Lubok Antu sports complex, from Tadika Kemas Kaong Ulu and Nanga Jela; 19 in all now.
4.54 pmLatest !!! Samy Vellu and the gang had left Bukit Selambau as awell as all BN Ministers also leaving Bukit Gantang. Is this a good sign that the PR would be declared as winners in this two hills?
4.48 pmBatang Ai:The 17th ballot box arrives from SK Sebangki at Lubok Antu sports complex. Bt Selambau: Police say they are investigating, under unlawful restraint, an incident this morning involving PKR supporters stopping Barisan party workers thinking they were ‘phantom voters.’
4.45 pmOf the five boxes opened, BN has won four polling stations – Ng Delok, Dewan Serbaguna Batang Ai, Kerangan Mong and Ulu Engkari. PKR won one in Sempang. BN is leading with 908 votes against PKR’
s 356, majority 552. About 20 percent of the votes have been counted so far. Our sources are telling us Batang Ai will go to the BN. Bt Gantang will go either way and Bt Selambau will got the PKR. Three more ballot boxes arrive from Tadika Kemas Krangan Mong, Sesco township hall and SK Skarok at Lubok Antu sports complex; there are 16 boxes in all now.
4.23 pm Unofficial result for Batang Ai : after four of 13 boxes counted at tally centre in Lubok Antu sports complex, Barisan (204) leading PKR (147 votes).
Bukit Selambau : According to elections watchdog Mafrel, a commotion erupted at SJK Chung Hua when DAP stalwart Karpal Singh and Kedah MB Azizan Razak arrived. “Unhappy MIC members threw water bottles at their cars. According to observers, passers-by were also hit. It is not clear what caused the commotion.” (Malaysiakini)4.21 pm In Bukit Selambau, at the SM Sains Sultan Mohd Jiwa, out of 2,494 voters, 1,560 of them checked in at the PKR booth.
4.00 pmBt Gantang – Low voter turnout continues to worry Pakatan here. “Many young people couldn’t come back and vote because it is a working day. It should have been a weekend. The EC cannot expect voters to be at its beck and call and get leave so easily. We must be more considerate and remember what sort of economic climate we are in – would the EC want to risk being retrenched?” Said Tian Chua, Keadilan information chief.
Bukit SelambauThe EC has announced that the turnout of voters here stood at 61 percent as at 3pm. Kedah EC chief Zainal Abidin Zakaria believed a 70 percent turnout or more can be achieved by the time polling closes at 5pm.
Batang Ai :The 13th ballot box arrives at the Lubok Antu sports complex, from Rumah Limpeng Lepong.
3.58 pm Bt Gantang – Low voter turnout continues to worry Pakatan here. “Many young people couldn’t come back and vote because it is a working day. It should have been a weekend. The EC cannot expect voters to be at its beck and call and get leave so easily. We must be more considerate and remember what sort of economic climate we are in – would the EC want to risk being retrenched?” Said Tian Chua, Keadilan information chief.
Bukit SelambauThe EC has announced that the turnout of voters here stood at 61 percent as at 3pm. Kedah EC chief Zainal Abidin Zakaria believed a 70 percent turnout or more can be achieved by the time polling closes at 5pm.
3.50 pmBt Gantang:With less than two hours too, it starts raining here again. Batang Ai: Counting begins for six ballot boxes from SK Nanga Delok, SK Ulu Engkari, SK Nanga Aup, Tadika Kemas Sempang, Batang Ai Salcra Multipurpose Hall and Nanga Patoh Agriculture office. More ballot boxes arrive at the Lubok Antu sports complex from Nanga Menyebat, Nanga Tibu and Rumah Renggie Bukong.
3.00 pmEC chairperson Abdul Aziz Yusof said that the turnout at Bukit Gantang stood at 58.15 percent as at 2pm.
Bt Selambau: Independent candidate M Vinsen is complaining of discrepancies in the ballot paper at the Institut Kemahiran Mara polling centre in respect to his name and his logo. He said that his name was placed next to someone else’s logo in the ballot paper. He also said that his name was misspelt in the ballot counting box which would be used for the counting process later. He lodged a police report in Sungai Petani over the matter and promised to take action against the Election Commission over the issue. The police detained two men aged 37 and 54 at Kampung Bukit Lembu this morning for stopping a bus carrying BN election workers. Elections watchdog Mafrel observers spot two more buses suspected to be ferrying phantom voters. One bus was seen at Taman Ria Jaya and another was heading towards Tasek Apong. The passengers claimed to be BN supporters from Alor Setar. Mafrel said photos were taken of the buses by the observers.
Batang Ai: With voting in some polling districts closed by now, the trend suggest an unexpectedly high voters turnout. In the three fairly sizable polling districts of Sebangki, Mepi and Batu Kaya, the turnout in the morning is very brisk and with two hours before closing, it had already exceeded 70 percent. Please note the lower turnout announced earlier for Batang Ai.. All of sudden there is this sudden jump.
2.45 pm Massive fraud by the Taib Mahmud government is expected to be carried out to influence the final outcome of Batang Ai election result. At Bt Gantang: Mafrel chair Syed Ibrahim was at Bkt Gantang doing some roaming observation. He noticed that the SPR is deploying their HQ officials in big polling centres over 3 voting streams-which he thought is new. Another new development is the use of cameras to scan people coming in and out of the SPR barongs. This may seems intimidating to voters and may violate one of the election rules. Need more checking on this issue.
2.30 pm Batang Ai: Ballot boxes from Rumah Intang Mengiling Nanga Patoh Agriculture Office, SK Nanga Delok and SK Nanga Kumpang arrive at Lubok Antu sports complex.
2.20 pmBt Selambau – According to EC officials, some 40 percent of the 35,140 registered voters there have cast their ballots as of noon. “I think we are safe in Bt Selambau,” said Tian Chua, Keadilan’
s information chief. It is still raining in many parts of Bt Gantang, keeping voters away. Traffic too is horrendous caused by police roadblocks at Kuala Sepetang.
1.35 pmChangkat Jering thief, Mohd Osman Jailu complained that he was abused by PAS supporters who called him a traitor and a ‘frog’
when he went to cast his ballot at the SK Changkat Jering polling centre this morning
12.59 pmIt is raining in Bukit Gantang. Traffic in all major roads are affected. PR workers are reporting a good turnout especially at the Chinese constituencies of Kuala Sepetang and Kampung Baru Simpang.
12.40 pm 7 Keadilan members were arrested for using Altantuya mask
12.37 pm One bus carrying phantom voters has been stopped by opposition supporters at Gurun, some 20 kilometres away from Sungai Petani. The bus was stopped by these supporters at about 10am and is now at the Gurun police station. The police as usual said they were not sure if the passengers were supporters or voters. The police are checking on their status now, using the electoral roll, and they will be found not guilty.
12.24 pm Our sources from foreign news agencies are telling us as of noon, only 40% of the 35,140 registered voters at Bt Selambau had cast their ballots. Massive fraud are taking place in this constituency and the EC is expected to announce a higher voter turn-out. Batang Ai: The ballot boxes from SK Ulu Engkari and Batang Ai Salcra multipurpose hall arrive at the counting centre at the Lubok Antu sports complex by helicopter. Voting has closed at five polling stations namely SK Ulu Engkari, SK Nanga Delok, SK Nanga Aup, Tadika Kemas Sempang and Batang Ai Salcra multipurpose hall.
12.16 pm Complaints against the Election Commission have started to emerge, with phantom voters sighted in Bt Gantang.
12.05 pm Bt Selambau –
A record voter turn-out is expected at Bt Selambau. This is strange indeed. Phantom Of The Opera play may be staged here by 5 pm. EC officials expect voter turnout to hit 50 percent by noon. At 11 am, it was 32 percent.
12 noonNGO’
s such as Sadia and Mafrel are looking into the Batang Ai bye-election to ensure the ballot boxes are not tampered with. Polling in some areas will be closed at 1 pm. The ballot boxes will be transported either by helicopters or boats. As we said earlier, the birds in Sarawak belong to Taib Mahmud, and it is risky to tie the result slips by the legs of the birds.
11.45 – Bukit Selambau – The rival supporters have been dispersed and separated. The Pas supporters outside the school outnumber the the BN group four to one. (This ratio is almost similar to the ratio of Pas flag-bearing vehicles on the road to the BN vehicles.
But the Pas side outside the school appears more calm while the boisterous BN side is singing, “Inilah Barisan kita“.
According to the Perak EC, the voter turnout as at 10 am was 17.77 percent in Bt Gantang, 21.92 percent in Bt Selambau and 32.41 percent in Batang Ai.
11.40am Bukit Gantang – The first report of alleged phantom voters has emerged. Blogger Haris Ibrahim reported that a bus was sighted at Bukit Lembu at 10.20am, carrying 29 occupants “who appear to be phantom voters”.He said that the bus was escorted by police cars all the way to the Gurun police station.
“The gate was closed but one PKR representative was allowed to go in. A small group gathered outside the police station,” he blogged.
11.42 am– Bukit Selambau – There are about 50 trained Mafrel observers going on duty to observe the 22 polling centres around Bkt Selambau area, making it the biggest group to cover the by-election other than the government side. 30 keep watch inside the polling centre/schools while the rest outside.
11.37 am – Bukit Gantang – Non-Malay voters are starting to come out to the polling centres, with rain forecast in Bt Gantang in the afternoon. As emotions begin to run high, police are increasing back-up forces in Taiping and Kuala Sepetang. Sources mentioned to Keadilan party membersof the increasing presence of Light Strike Force and FRU units, but the overall situation is calm, even cheerful although emotional.
11.30 – Bkt Selambau– There are two pathways, for Pas and BN respectively, to the main school entrance. The Pas pondok is near hawker stalls, thus very little space for car-parking. Most voters were thus parking near the BN pathway and entering the school using the shortcut where the BN pondok is.
The Pas supporters thus came over to the BN “shortcut” to canvas voters and apparently, the BN supporters didn’t like the Pas voters coming over to “their side”.
11.10 – Kg Air Kuning, Bukit Selambau – Teargas has just been fired by FRU at the Air Kuning school about 200 metres away to welcome Haji Hadi Awang who came with black Toyota 2.7 VVT-1. 10.50 am Bt Gantang – Popular PAS candidate Nizar Jamaluddin was mobbed on his arrival at the Sek Keb Changkat Jering polling centre. Nizar will not be voting as he is not a constituent, but he will drop by at several centres to thank his supporters. 10.25 am Bt Gantang – the Election Commission has estimated a 20 per cent turnout as of 10 am.
10.11 am In Batang Ai, the pace is much less hectic as there are only 8,006 registered voters. The main battle there will be between Pakatan’s Jawah Gerang and BN’
s Malcolm Mussen. Because of the spread-out and undeveloped terrain, helicopters will be used to ferry in ballot boxes from some of the more remote centres.
10.00 am With both the main protagonists in Bt Selambau – Pakatan’s S Manikumar and BN’
s S Ganesan – having already cast their votes well before 9 am, attention has shifted to Bt Gantang. Everyone is waiting for PAS leader Nizar Jamaluddin to make an appearance. Meanwhile, at the Sek Keb Changkat Jering polling centre, hundreds of PAS and Umno supporters have intensified their verbal battle. But the situation is under control.
9.42 am Bt Gantang – A traffic snarl is building up at the main junction in Taiping, with police up and about monitoring the situation. More voters are coming out now and party workers have their hands full helping out. Rain has been forecast in the afternoon.
9.20 am Bt Gantang – BN’s Ismail Saffian expects to win by a majority of 1,000 to 3,000. “I leave it to the voters,”
he told reporters after casting his ballot.
9.00 am Bt Gantang – BN’
s Ismail Saffian is waiting to cast his vote, while an air of expectancy builds up for the arrival of popular PAS leader Nizar Jamaluddin, the Pakatan menteri besar whose administration was toppled by a plot orchestrated by Prime Minister Najib Razak in February.
8.55 am In Batang Ai, where there are only 8,006 registered voters, balloting is also underway in the many remote centres spread across the sprawling constituency. Officials there say it may be possible for results to be announced before 9 pm.
8.48 am Police personnel form barrier between BN and Pakatan supporters. Taiping police chief said light strike force personnel will be stationed at all centres to maintain crowd control. While noisy, all seems to be calm with no untoward incidents reported so far.
8.32 am In Bt Gantang, a crowd of hundreds is starting to build at the SK Dato Panglima Gantang voting centre, where BN candidate Ismail Saffian will be voting. BN and Pakatan supporters have begun cheering and jeering at each other, waving party flags in support of their candidates.
8.20 am Bt Selambau Keadilan candidate S Manikumar casts his vote at SMK Taman Ria Jaya. “I am confident of winning this seat, maybe with even a majority of more than 2,000,”
he said.
8.15 am Bt Selambau BN candidate S Ganesan casts his vote at SJKT Ladang Perbadanan. “Now it is up to the voters. Tonight I will sleep well. I leave it to the voters and God now,”
he told reporters after casting his vote.
8.00 am Nearly 100,000 eligible Malaysians will cast their votes today at Bukit Gantang in Perak, Bukit Selambau in Kedah and Batang Ai in Sarawak. So far weather is good at all three places.
Terkini|BUKIT SELAMBAU, 7 April (Hrkh) – Semua pusat mengundi bagi pilihan raya kecil (PRK) Dun N.25 Bukit Selambau mula dibuka jam 8.00 pagi tadi.
12.20 tgh: SPR umum sebanyak 40 peratus telah keluar membuang undi.
11.35 pagi: Keadaan lalulintas di sekitar pekan Sungai Petani, terutamanya Sungai Lalang dan Bukit Selambau mengalami kesesakan yang teruk.
11.22 pagi: Mafrel melaporkan FRU dikejarkan di SM Aman Jaya berikutan suasana tegang antara penyokong KeADILan dan BN.
Penyokong KeADILan tidak puas hati apabila BN cuba mengubah sebuah khemahnya agar diletakkan berdekatan dengan pusat pengundian. KeADILan hanya ada sebuah khemah di kawasan tersebut.
11.00 pagi: Harakahdaily dimaklumkan kira-kira 40 orang dipercayai pengundi hantu ditangkap dalam sebuah bas yang datang dari arah Perlis menuju ke Kuala Sin semalam.
Mereka ditahan oleh petugas Pakatan Rakyat kira-kira jam 3 pagi.Kesemua mereka telah dibawa ke Balai Polis Gurun.
10.25 pagi: Timbalan Pengerusi SPR, Dato’ Wan Ahmad Wan Omar berkata sehingga pukul 10 pagi,sebanyak 20 peratus telah keluar mengundi. Beliau berharap bilangan yang keluar mengundi akan mencacah 50 peratus menjelang pukul 1 tengah hari.
9.30 pagi: Harakahdaily dihubungi Ketua Dewan Pemuda PAS Perlis, Ustaz Ya’akub Abu Seman yang bertugas di pusat mengundi di Sekolah Rendah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina Pakan Bukit Selambau melaporkan berlakunya kekliruan apbila SPR membenarkan dua laluan digunakan untuk memasuki pusat mengundi.
Pertamanya laluan utama menuju ke sekolah tersebut dan laluan kedua merupakan sebuah lorong kecil yang terpaksa melalui khemas petugas BN. Menurut beliau setiap kali pengundi yang mahu masuk ke pusat mengundi, mereka ditarik untuk melalui laluan tersebut.
Bantahan telah dikemukakan kepada SPR, namun SPR tetap membiarkannya. Bagaimanapun, petugas Pakatan Rakyat telah menghubungi wakil calon untuk membuat bantahan rasmi kepada SPR.
8.10 pagi: Calon Pakatan Rakyat, S. Manikumar memasuki pusat pengundian di Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Ria Jaya pada jam 8.10 pagi.
Beliau membuang undi di saluran 6 kira-kira jam 8.25 pagi.
Beliau yang ditemui wartawan sebelum masuk ke pusat mengundi menyatakan keyakinan akan memenangi PRK ini dengan majoriti yang lebih tinggi berbanding pilihan raya umum tahun lalu.
“Saya rasa begitu bersemangat pagi ini walaupun sedikit keletihan kerana berkempen ke sana-kemari. Apapun saya yakin dengan sokongan semua, kemenangan berpihak kepada kita,”katanya.
PRK ini diadakan berikutan perletakan jawatan Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri yang juga Exco Kerajaan Negeri Kedah, V. Arumugam. – mks._
Ceramah yang berlangsung di Bilik Gerakan Utama Taman Tengku Aminah Bukit Selambau yang di hadiri oleh pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat telah di ganggu oleh sepasukan anggota polis yang bertindak memberhentikan ceramah berkenaan beralasankan tidak boleh menyebut nama Najib Razak.
Ceramah yang dihadiri lebih kurang 3,000 penyokong Pakatan Rakyat pada awalnya berjalan lancar sehinggalah diganggu oleh pihak polis selepas penceramah pertama, YB Zuraida, Ahli Parlimen Ampang habis menyampaikan ceramahnya. Seorang anggota polis cawangan khas telah cuba menhentikan ceramah berkenaan dengan alasan tiada permit.
Namun setelah dibuktikan oleh pihak urisetia bahawa ceramah tersebut mempunyai permit barulah dibenar untuk diteruskan.
Orangramai semakin bertambah sehingga jumlah kehadiran mencecah 5,000 orang swaktu YB Yaakob Sapari (ADUN Kota Anggerik) yang juga exco Kedah menyampaikan ceramahnya.
Ia diikuti dengan ceramah Ahli Parlimen Batu Tian Chua yang mana ceramahnya mula diganggu oleh pemuda-pemuda MIC yang pejabatnya terletk lebih kurang 30 km di sebelah tempat ceramah.
Giliran R.Tangam kemudiannya menyampaikan ceramahnya yang menyentuh Datuk Seri Najib. Sebaik sahaja beliau tamat, sekumpulan 30 orang anggota polis telah menghalang program itu diteruskan dan meminta supaya diberhentikan yng menyebabkan timbul kekecohan.
Hasil perbincangan bersama YB Gobalakrishnan dan YB Sim, pihak urusetia bersetuju untuk menghentikan program sekalipun dibantah oleh orangramai. Orang ramai menjadi hairan mengapa pihak menganggu dan menghentikan program ceramah kempen pilihanraya Pakatan Rakyat berkenaan tanpa alasan yang menasabah.
Kira-kira ham 9:00 tadi dua orang lelaki telah ditangkap dan diserahkan kepada polis kerana dikatakan membawa tong yang mengandungi kertas undi palsu. Sehingga ini belum dapat dipastikan apakah status dua lelaki berkenaan.
Ceramah yang berlangsung di Bilik Gerakan Utama Taman Tengku Aminah Bukit Selambau yang di hadiri oleh pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat telah di ganggu oleh sepasukan anggota polis yang bertindak memberhentikan ceramah berkenaan beralasankan tidak boleh menyebut nama Najib Razak.
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