Terima Kasih Pengundi Raub dan Rakyat Malaysia

I am having trouble finishing up this short piece. Congratulatory messages have been coming to my phone nonstop. I want to thank everyone through this short article.

It is now official. I have won the Raub Parliamentary seat with a majority of 2814 votes. I wish to thank the DAP leadership for placing their trust and faith in me.

I want to thank all my supporters of all races who have voted me in. I shall honour that trust by becoming a worthy MP for Raub and speak without fear or favour. I would also like to thank all my donors and contributors who have made it less painful for me to conduct the political warfare.

I have had only about two weeks to reset the minds of the rural folks in Raub. But in all of the voting wards, I have scored vast improvements. I am confident within a year; the Malays will warm up to me.  As for he Chinese in Raub, it’s like what the PM said- a Chinese Tsunami.

We had to wait anxiously for the results to be official. The cause for the delay was an innocent mistake by the Ketua Tempat Mengundi. He had inadvertently left an important document ( Borang 14) – a summary of the results signed and endorsed by the officers at the voting centre in a ballot box. Without that document, the returning officer cannot validate the results nor announced it. The ketua tempat mengundi(KTM) has already gone back to his kampong somewhere in Jerantut. The police had to fetch him in the dead of the night so that he can open up the ballot box and retrieve the document.

It was done at around 3 am in last night.

This is just a start to a duty and responsibility to serve my constituency to the best of my ability. I hope to earn a deserving judgment from the people of Raub. Let us work together to make Raub and this country a place with a better future.