GE13: Targeting Perak

Where to attack in Perak.

Many of us like to know where we can hit BN where it hurts. This is the first of several articles, where I have identified the places I think are worthwhile to mount our attacks.

Let us start with Perak. If we focus our attacks on Larut, Parit, Tapah, Pasir Salak, Bagan Datok and Tanjung Malim, we will leave only two seats for BN to win in Perak. That will be Gerik and Lenggong. In an earlier article, I said, BN will win only 7 parliamentary seats. Let us make that 2.

The more important strategy is to take the federal seats to allow PR to form the federal government. States that do not fall under PR will run to form state coalition governments.  Najib says melancholically in Penang that he does not mind other people taking over his PMship- but he fears under Pakatan, the country will go bankrupt. Come on Mr PM, it is not like you are the only person who can do the job of PM and it is not that only Barisan can run the country. You have spent more than you earned for the last 16 years since 1998.  I have said it before and now will repeat- if Najib can become PM, so can everyone else.

Table 1: seats that can be won/lost by PR and BN

No	Parliament	Party	Party	Incumbent	Majority	M %	NM %
1	Lenggong	BN
2	Gerik	BN		Tan Lian Hoe	5000+	73	27
3	Larut	BN		Hamzah Zainudin	1900	87	12
4	Parit Buntar		PR
5	Bagan Serai		PR
6	Bkt Gantang		PR
7	Taiping		PR
8	Padang Rengas		PR
9	Sungai Siput		PR
10	Tambun	BN		Husni Hanazliah	5000+	64	36
11	Ipoh Timur		PR
12	Ipoh Barat		PR
13	Batu Gajah		PR
14	Beruas		PR
15	Parit	BN		Nizar Zakaria	2800	93	7
16	Kuala Kangsar		PR
17	Gopeng		PR
18	Tapah	BN		M Saravanan	3000+	47	53
19	Pasir Salak	BN		Tajudin Rahman	2688	79	21
20	Lumut		PR
21	Bagan Datok	BN		Zahid Hamidi	2900	57	43
22	Telok Intan		PR
23	Tanjung Malim	BN		Ong Ka Chuan	5422	51	49
24	Kampar		PR

BN has got only 2 sure parliamentary seats. I have shaded the areas where if we mount concerted and continuous efforts they will go the Pakatan way. Tan Lian Hoe in Gerik survives solely by the grace of the Malay voters. Now is the chance for the Gerik Malays to reject any representative of MCA which has shown its true color of being morbid anti-Islam and anti-Malay.

It is time to kick out Saravanan from Tapah. The 20% Malaysian Indians are better off being looked after by Pakatan than MIC. Why should Perakians retain Ong Ka Chuan any longer? In Kuala Kangsar, that windbag Rafidah Aziz won with a majority of about 1400 votes. We must allow her to enjoy flying with Air Asia by retiring her. In any case, she has served her purpose in political life. It is not that, without her, other people are not capable of running the Trade Ministry.

But, let us not be greedy. Let us leave Gerik and  Lenggong for BN.