Empat malam sebelumnya saya juga turun untuk meninjau kempen PH yang diadakan di lokasi sama. Ceramah malam itu membabitkan pemimpin tertinggi PH, Kit Siang, Guan Eng, Mujahid Yusuf, Salahuddin Ayub, Abd Aziz Bari dan lain-lain.
Kehadiran malam itu sekitar 300 orang. Melihat kepada wajah yang hadir hampir separuh orang luar.
Berbeza dengan himpunan tengah hari tadi. Jumlah kehadiran agak memuaskan. Dr Mahathir sendiri menyatakan kegembiraanya kerana ramai yang pakai baju merah. Khemah panjang disediakan penuh sesak. Tidak cukup itu orang ramai berdiri di kiri dan kanan diluar khemah. Saya menganggarkan yang hadir sekitar 3,000. Namun sebagai majlis melibatkan PM, ia masih belum berjaya.
Semua yang berada di bawah khemah memakai baju merah, tertulis Harapan. Mereka terdiri daripada masyarakat Orang Asli dari semua peringkat perempuan, tua dan kanak-kanak. Mereka mungkin diangkut, dihimpun untuk melihat Perdana Menteri dan mendengar mananatnya menjelang hari mengundi esok.
Kenapa saya kata diangkut, sebab ada yang sudah mengenderai motisikal walaupun Dr Mahathir masih belum selesai berucap.
Hanya ada dua tiga kerat sahaja Melayu, yang dipercayai peneroka. Manakala selebihnya, khasnya yang berdiri di luar khemah, memenuhi beberapa buah kedai kopi berdekatan, terdiri daripada petugas pilihan raya,pengiringi menteri dan juga pelancong politik seperti saya.
Saya tidak menjenguk ke dalam kawasan masjid, yang terletak di sebelahan, apakah ada yang curi mendengarnya dari dalam masjid. Saat Dr Mahathir berucap, kira-kira sejam sahaja lagi akan masuk waktu Zohor. Mereka yang kaki masjid pasti sudah berada dalam masjid untuk menanti solat Jumaat. Dr Mahathir juga bersolat di masjid itu. Begitu juga mereka yang “semen” segan untuk tampil dikhayalak kerana sebab tertentu mencuri dengar dari dalam masjid.
Yang boleh dirumuskan dengan himpunan itu, PH belum berjaya untuk memecah kubu BN di Sungai Koyan. Kehadiran Dr Mahathir masih belum membuka hati dan langkah mereka untuk hadir ke majlis PM, walaupun sekadar meraikan kedatangan PM ke kawasan mereka.
Senario itu menjelaskan kedudukan BN di Dun Sungai Koyan masih kuat, tidak berubah, bahkan makin kuat dan yakin, mereka akan menguasai Dun ini apabila orang-orang Pas juga bersama mereka apa lagi setelah presidennya mewajibkan mereka mengundi BN. Dun Sungai Koyan kini bukan sahaja dipagar oleh BN tetapi oleh orang Pas sama. Ini menyulitkan buat PH.
Keketatan itu ditambah pula oleh perintah dikeluarkan oleh Abdul Hadi Awang hari ini seperti dilaporkan beliau mewajibkan orang Pas mengundi BN. Pas dan BN kini berganding tangan menuju ke syurga. Masya-Allah. - MSO
PRK Cameron Highland adalah utk menentukan sikap Pengundi samada mahu menghidupkan amalan Penyangak dan Penyamun serta Lebai yg "berpuashati" dgn kegiatan mereka atau mahu menghapuskan amalan tersebut. - f/bk
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Hadi tak komenkah dah tua kerepot terlompat2 macam kera kena belacan...
Apalasamy – DAP's noble
highlands warrior...
In the decades-long struggle of the DAP to establish a foothold in Cameron Highlands, a BN bastion for umpteen years, one figure occupies a special place.
Apalasamy Simmathiri, 67, was the DAP candidate in five general elections since 1990 – thrice for the state seat of Tanah Rata and twice for the parliamentary one of Cameron Highlands.
In all five contests, Apalasamy (above, in red cap) lost in this BN stronghold but managed to save his deposit, a case of being beaten but unbowed.
The defeats were not surprising because of the ruggedness of the vast terrain, the mixed-race composition of the electorate and the enormous advantages incumbency conferred on BN.
These obstacles, once seen as insuperable and now viewed as challenges that can be overcome, have shed a warm afterglow on Apalasamy's efforts at upholding the party's colours in the face of daunting odds.
In the two-week campaign for tomorrow's vote, Apalasamy was a conspicuous if reticent presence at Pakatan Harapan gatherings and ceramah.
Party workers cheer whenever speakers doff their caps to Apalasamy in prefatory remarks as if to acknowledge that the party would not be where it is in Cameron Highlands today had their veteran standard bearer not blazed the once lonely trail.
Apalasamy's pioneering efforts on behalf of DAP would fructify if its candidate to wrest the long-held BN seat, S Manogaran, wins tomorrow.
Forty-one years after setting up the first DAP branch in the district of Kuala Terla, Apalasamy, a vegetable farmer for most of his 67 years, will feel a sense of deep satisfaction that his pioneering efforts have borne fruit.
“When we set up the DAP branch in 1978, Cameron Highlands was part of the Lipis parliamentary constituency and Ghazali Shafie was the member of Parliament,” he recalled.
Invited by Patto
Apalasamy was born in Sungei Siput in 1950 to a leftist father, an estate mandore, who imbued him with sympathy for the poor and a sense of social activism on their behalf.
Good results in the Lower Certificate of Education in 1965 and at Senior Cambridge in 1967 brought him to the notice of then MIC leader and minister VT Sambanthan, the MP for Sungei Siput, who employed him as a peon in his constituency office.
He did not stay long in Sungei Siput. He moved to Cameron Highlands when he was offered a job as an assistant manager of a tea estate there.
Apalasamy came under the influence of the legendary P Patto whom he met in Sungei Siput on one of the DAP stalwart's support-garnering campaign swings in northern Perak. Patto invited him to join the party.
In 1970, Apalasamy left his tea estate job and bought an acre of land on which to plant vegetables in Kampong Terla which was to become a DAP stronghold.
He became a fixture of the DAP in the highlands, leading to serial appearances as a candidate for the state assembly from Tanah Rata and for Parliament from Cameron Highlands which was hived off from the Lipis ward by 1990.
If Manogaran triumphs in Camerons tomorrow, he will have to touch his forelock in gratitude to the man who paved the way for him. - Terence Netto,mk
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Ucapan Dr.M semasa berkempen di PRK CH...
PAS-UMNO sudah bersetubuh..
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