KUALA PILAH: Pakatan Harapan will continue to focus on its agenda while its rivals Perikatan Nasional and Barisan Nasional struggle with racial issues, PKR’s Tengku Zafrul Aziz said today.
Tengku Zafrul, a member of PKR’s political bureau, said the BN reaction to a controversial statement by PN election director Sanusi Nor showed that “there are many issues that seem incompatible” between them.
“The important thing for PH is to focus on what we are doing. Whatever happens at the PN-BN level, we will let it be,” he told reporters while campaigning for Noorzunita Begum Mohd Ibrahim, the PH candidate who seeks re-election in the Pilah state seat.
Tengku Zafrul was responding to PH chairman Anwar Ibrahim’s statement that no leader should make statements that could offend the feelings of other races. “These racial issues should not be used for politics,” he said.
Sanusi has come under criticism over his remarks while campaigning in the Negeri Sembilan state election. On Thursday night, Sanusi was reported to have said: “Malays only have this Malaya. Indians only have India, Chinese only have China, Cambodians only have Cambodia, Siamese only have Thailand. Where are the Malays? Malays only here.”
Among those who criticised his remarks was BN chairman Zahid Hamidi who suggested that Sanusi should not come to campaign in Negeri Sembilan and should stay in Kedah. Sanusi is menteri besar of Kedah.
Earlier today, Sanusi said his remarks had been distorted, and he threatened to take legal action.
BN contesting 25 seats in the Negeri Sembilan state assembly while PN contested 11 following an understanding between the two coalitions. PH is contesting all 36 seats.
Polling takes place on Aug 1, with early voting held today.
