BN’s desire to take back the Wangsa Maju parliamentary seat seems far-fetched as two coalition parties there – MCA and Umno – are at loggerheads and incumbent Independent MP Wee Choo Keong is in a fixed.
Words of MCA and UMNO divisions there do not see eye-to-eye have been around since early last year when rumours had it that the seat would be given to Umno although it was a traditional MCA seat.
In fact, MCA would not campaign for Umno candidate as the party view the seat as ‘gone’ given the Malay votes split and the Chinese votes solid against Umno candidate.
A township of 65,078 voters with 53 percent Malays, 38 percent Chinese and nine percent Indians, MCA has held the seat until 2008 when Wee, under PKR flag, won the seat with just a 150 votes majority.
It is understood that Umno is to be given the seat and the candidate is the Prime Minister’s political secretary Datuk Dr Shafie Abdullah, whose banner are everywhere in Wangsa Maju.
MCA Wangsa Maju division secretary Lim Choon Hong had stated that the party would not recognize any candidates other than its division chief Yew Teong Look. However, this is baffling as how can a lazy party like MCA demand a seat from the Prime Minister when their own machinery is not functioning baffles me.
The ‘bad blood’ between the two parties began early last year when Shafie, understanding and aware of the needs of the people, took the initiative and began meeting voters without inviting MCA local leaders and Chinese representations, who at that time was still 'sleeping' and not doing anything for the community.
MCA then complaint against the move but the BN leadership had decided that the seat be given to Umno taking into consideration MCA's poor service to the people of Wangsa Maju post - 2008. This is despite the MCA had contested the seat in 2004 and 2008.
Despite the treat of sabotage and isolation by MCA, Shafie continues conducting activities such as giving out the BR1M to voters and aid to schools in the absence of MCA representatives.
To add to the trouble, MCA than alleged that Shafie is not even popular with the Malay voters there let alone being recognized although he is the Umno Wangsa Maju division head without providing any proof or statistic to back their claim.
Watching the development closely is incumbent Wee who is still contemplating whether to contest or allow a straight fight between BN and PKR from Pakatan Rakyat.
Close friends of Wee said he had wanted to allow BN to contest as he is now a BN-friendly candidate but “the situation now, knowing that giving the seat to Umno would be sure waste, he might reconsider his earlier decision.”
“He may make it a three-corner fight,” said his friend
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YIP KUM FOOK (MCA GOMBAK) MEMBERITAHU BERBOHONG DAN MENIPU RAKYAT WANG
Undi Cina di Kuala Ampang adalah penting untuk menentukan kemenangan BN di Hulu Kelang Gombak pada pilihan raya umum.
Selangor MCA operasi pusat pengarah Datuk Yip Kum Fook berkata penduduk di Ampang Chinese New Village Kuala perlu untuk menyampaikan undi bagi membolehkan BN untuk menang di Hulu Kelang.
Menurut beliau, dalam tempoh lima tahun lalu, kampung baru telah menyaksikan banyak perubahan positif termasuk menaik taraf jalan, pasaran dan gelanggang bola keranjang yang dilindungi.
Beliau berkata masyarakat Cina dari kampung mewakili 15% daripada pengundi Cina, yang merupakan batas yang besar.
"Saya tidak nampak sebab mengapa orang Cina tidak akan mengundi Barisan. Ini adalah satu-satunya kampung baru di kawasan itu dan kami menerima beberapa juta ringgit untuk menaik taraf kawasan itu untuk rakyat, "kata Yip Kum Fook, yang juga pengerusi MCA Gombak.
Beliau berkata, mereka sedang merancang untuk menaik taraf kuil Cina di kampung baru jika Barisan telah diberi mandat di Gombak.
"Kami juga akan terus bertemu rakyat di sini sekurang-kurangnya seminggu sekali untuk membantu mereka menyelesaikan masalah mereka. Kami percaya calon-calon yang mesti dicapai pada setiap masa, "katanya.
Yip berkata demikian pada majlis makan malam 1Malaysia dengan kira-kira 800 penduduk dari kampung baru.
Acara ini telah diadakan untuk memperkenalkan dasar-dasar dan rancangan untuk rakyat kerajaan BN.
Turut hadir ialah Pengerusi BN Gombak Abdul Rahim Kamaruddin yang berharap rakyat dapat menghargai pelan transformasi Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Abdul Rahim berharap untuk menjadikan kampung baru Cina ke tempat ikonik bagi pelancong untuk melawat, ia memanggil Chinatown Gombak.
Pada majlis itu, 102 hadiah cabutan bertuah telah disampaikan termasuk hadiah utama sebuah televisyen LED dan satu iPad.
Pemenang LED televisyen Chan Soo Lian, 80, berkata, kemenangan itu adalah satu kejutan yang dialu-alukan.
Chan telah tinggal di kampung itu selama lebih daripada 50 tahun dan telah menyaksikan peralihan kampung.
Bagi beliau, Kuala Ampang adalah kejiranan yang tenang dan selamat dan dia ingin memastikan ia tetap sama.
Olih: Thestar
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