SIBU: The newly formalised Pakatan Sarawak's battle cry is "Save Sarawak, Save Malaysia”. And in the process, said Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, "we will be saving our children”.
Anwar also noted that despite Sarawak being the richest state in Malaysia with it oil and gas, timber and resources, its people were the poorest in the country.
“This is because its resources have been squandered by the BN leaders and they are very rich. They give projects, tenders and contracts to themselves, to their wives and their children.
“They take away people’s land. Now what do the ordinary people have? Nothing!” he said, when he addressed more than 2,000 people at a dinner over the weekend in Sibu.
“In order to save Sarawak, save Malaysia and our children, I ask you to support Pakatan Rakyat. You vote the DAP candidate in this Bandar Sibu by-election.
“You will not go to jail by supporting us. I am the one they want to send to jail; they have beaten me, stripped me naked, and accused me of this and that. They want me to surrender.
“But I will tell you I will not surrender,” Anwar declared.
Urging them to play smart politics, Anwar said: “If the BN gives you money, you must ask for more, if the BN gives you projects, you must ask for bigger projects. But remember, you must vote for the DAP candidate.”
Lim Kit Siang, DAP national adviser, who also spoke at the dinner called on people of Bandar Sibu to vote for change.
“You must elect a DAP candidate in the Bandar Sibu by-election. And that is very important.
“We must win it so that we can shake the foundation of Barisan Nasional to its root,” he said.
DAP candidate to announced later
He admitted that it was difficult to win in the by-election, due to be held on May 16, as they are against the whole machinery of the BN state government.
“But with determination, nothing is impossible. You have done it before when you elected a DAP candidate against SUPP chairman and deputy chief minister Wong Soon Kai in 1982.
“Can you do it again this time?” he asked, pointing out that the victory here will be an indication of the support of the people for the Pakatan.
“From Sibu we begin our journey of change and it will certainly spread to other parts of Sarawak and to whole of Malaysia.
“Our victory will not only shake the foundation of the BN to its root, but it is also paving the way for the Pakatan Rakyat to march to Putrajaya and form the next Federal government,” he added.
PAS deputy President Nasaruddin Mat Isa who also spoke at the function described politics practised by the BN as very “dirty”.
He accused the BN of failing to fulfill many of the promises they made to the people.
The three leaders were in Sibu to select a candidate for the by-election and they had agreed that DAP will put a candidate on behalf of the Pakatan.
Meanwhile, the name of the Pakatan-DAP candidate will be announced at an appropriate time by the Sarawak DAP chairman Wong Ho Leng.
The Sarawak United People’s Party has picked up Robert Lau Hui Chew as its candidate for the by-election. Nominations will be held on May 8.
The by-election is caused by the death of MP for Bandar Sibu and Deputy Minister of Transport Robert Lau on April 9.
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