BN's Gerakan candidate N Gobalakrishnan dismisses criticisms that he is unknown among electorate in the parliamentary constituency.
GEORGE TOWN: Barisan Nasional candidate for Batu Kawan parliamentary seat, N Gobalakrishnan, said he was the constituency’s thoroughbred with strong grassroots support.
The vice president of the Malaysian Associated Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, dismissed criticisms that he was unknown among electorates in the area.
A Gerakan state committee member and a lawyer by profession, Gobalakrishnan stressed that he was born and brought up, and has even set up his law firm in Batu Kawan.
He joined Gerakan in 1998 and served as a local councillor in mainland municipality (MPSP) between 2000 and 2002.
He was also president of Penang Indian Chambers of Commerce between 2007 and 2011.
He said that he was actively involved as deputy president in the famous Hindu temple, Sri Muneeswarar Alayam in Jalan Baru, Prai, a state constituency under Batu Kawan.
During a two-year period between 2010 and 2012, he said he was the main fund-raiser for temple’s reconstruction costing RM4.7 million.
He claimed he personally secured federal government funds of RM600,000 from BN national chairman Najib Tun Razak and another RM200,000 from Gerakan president Koh Tsu Koon.
“If I don’t have grassroots support, I would have been able to collect so much funds,” he said, adding that he had also given legal aid service to the constituents over the years.
Gobalakrishnan, 49, who heads Gerakan’s Kuala Juru branch, was chosen ahead of party state elected committee member and Jalan Semilang branch A Mohan.
Feeling betrayed by party snub, Mohan has quit Gerakan and announced that he would contest Batu Kawan and a state seat, probably Bukit Tengah, as an independent candidate.
“Party leaders preferred someone close to them than someone close to the grassroots,” Mohan told a press conference yesterday.
‘Pakatan failed in Batu Kawan’
Batu Kawan has 57,593 registered voters as of December 2012.
Chinese form the majority ethnic group with 32,082 voters or 55.7%; followed by Indians 13,432 voters or 23.35%; Malays 11,861 or 20.59%; and others 218 or 0.39%.
The incumbent Batu Kawan MP is DAP deputy secretary general and state deputy chairman P Ramasamy.
Mohan aside, Gobalakrishnan is looking forward to victorious outing in Batu Kawan.
His campaign agenda is to bring more development in line with the country’s mainstream socio-economic growth, create more jobs and resolve persisting local issues.
He will bank on Najib’s transformation plans as his trump card to woo voters.
He claimed that the Pakatan Rakyat state government had failed to bring development to Batu Kawan in the past five years.
He also said that Batu Kawan voters have been deprived of constructive representation in the Parliament as well.
If elected, he pledged a progressive and dynamic representation for the Batu Kawan voters and introduce much needed development programmes.
Acknowledging that he faced a tough task to unseat the DAP, Gobalakrishnan nonetheless hoped that voters would support BN this time to benefit from BN’s development policies.
I don’t want the Batu Kawan people to be left out,” he said.
GEORGE TOWN: Barisan Nasional candidate for Batu Kawan parliamentary seat, N Gobalakrishnan, said he was the constituency’s thoroughbred with strong grassroots support.The vice president of the Malaysian Associated Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, dismissed criticisms that he was unknown among electorates in the area.
A Gerakan state committee member and a lawyer by profession, Gobalakrishnan stressed that he was born and brought up, and has even set up his law firm in Batu Kawan.
He joined Gerakan in 1998 and served as a local councillor in mainland municipality (MPSP) between 2000 and 2002.
He was also president of Penang Indian Chambers of Commerce between 2007 and 2011.
He said that he was actively involved as deputy president in the famous Hindu temple, Sri Muneeswarar Alayam in Jalan Baru, Prai, a state constituency under Batu Kawan.
During a two-year period between 2010 and 2012, he said he was the main fund-raiser for temple’s reconstruction costing RM4.7 million.
He claimed he personally secured federal government funds of RM600,000 from BN national chairman Najib Tun Razak and another RM200,000 from Gerakan president Koh Tsu Koon.
“If I don’t have grassroots support, I would have been able to collect so much funds,” he said, adding that he had also given legal aid service to the constituents over the years.
Gobalakrishnan, 49, who heads Gerakan’s Kuala Juru branch, was chosen ahead of party state elected committee member and Jalan Semilang branch A Mohan.
Feeling betrayed by party snub, Mohan has quit Gerakan and announced that he would contest Batu Kawan and a state seat, probably Bukit Tengah, as an independent candidate.
“Party leaders preferred someone close to them than someone close to the grassroots,” Mohan told a press conference yesterday.
‘Pakatan failed in Batu Kawan’
Batu Kawan has 57,593 registered voters as of December 2012.
Chinese form the majority ethnic group with 32,082 voters or 55.7%; followed by Indians 13,432 voters or 23.35%; Malays 11,861 or 20.59%; and others 218 or 0.39%.
The incumbent Batu Kawan MP is DAP deputy secretary general and state deputy chairman P Ramasamy.
Mohan aside, Gobalakrishnan is looking forward to victorious outing in Batu Kawan.
His campaign agenda is to bring more development in line with the country’s mainstream socio-economic growth, create more jobs and resolve persisting local issues.
He will bank on Najib’s transformation plans as his trump card to woo voters.
He claimed that the Pakatan Rakyat state government had failed to bring development to Batu Kawan in the past five years.
He also said that Batu Kawan voters have been deprived of constructive representation in the Parliament as well.
If elected, he pledged a progressive and dynamic representation for the Batu Kawan voters and introduce much needed development programmes.
Acknowledging that he faced a tough task to unseat the DAP, Gobalakrishnan nonetheless hoped that voters would support BN this time to benefit from BN’s development policies.
I don’t want the Batu Kawan people to be left out,” he said.
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