Naib Presiden PAS Datuk Husam Musa mengakui beliau agak gentar apabila menghadapi prospek berdepan Setiausaha Agung Umno, Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor (Ku Nan) bagi merebut kerusi Parlimen Putrajaya pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke 13 (PRU13) nanti.
Namun itu tidak akan mematahkan semangatnya untuk bekerja lebih kuat memenangi hati 15,798 pengundi berdaftar yang majoritinya adalah kakitangan awam.
“Saya belum ada keyakinan lagi kerana di sini Barisan Nasional (BN) ada tokoh hebat yang kuat.
“Ku Nan (penyandang ahli parlimen Putrajaya) dah bagi amaran dua pertiga pengundi Putrajaya tolak saya jadi saya takutlah.
“PRU 2008 PAS hanya dapat undi sebanyak 25 peratus, salah satu kawasan yang paling rendah jumlah sokongan.
“Kalau naik lima peratus pun tak boleh menang juga tapi tak mengapa kita boleh cuba kerana saya datang sini dengan harapan untuk menang.
“Saya datang bukan untuk kalah,” katanya dalam sidang media di sini hari ini.
Ku Nan yang juga Ketua Umno Bahagian Putrajaya dan Ahli Parlimennya semalam yakin majoriti pengundi akan tolak Husam kerana kapasitinya sebagai calon luar.
Menurut tokoh veteran Umno itu, pengundi Putrajaya yang juga berasal daripada Kelantan juga tidak akan menerima Husam kerana tidak faham nadi penduduk di situ.
Diterima dengan baik
Husam dalam responnya bagaimanapun menyangkal dakwaan tersebut kerana berdasarkan respon yang diterimanya dalam lawatan kerja pertama sejak dua hari lalu, penduduk dan kakitangan awam di Putrajaya dapat menerima kedatangannya dengan baik.
Malah, kedatangannya ke Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara (JPN) pagi tadi juga disambut mesra oleh pegawai dan pekerja di situ dan sempat menikmati sarapan bersama mereka.
“Ini bukan hanya soal Husam datang dari Kelantan tapi kedatangan saya demi rakyat dan negara,” katanya.
Katanya, ketika turun padang beberapa masalah pengundi di Putrajaya dapat dikenal pasti, antaranya kos sara hidup tinggi yang membebankan kakitangan awam sokongan.
Begitu juga dengan kos premis perniagaan yang tinggi memandangkan Perbadanan Putrajaya mengenakan harga sewa yang mahal dan menggunakan pihak ketiga.
“Jadi mereka cadangkan supaya perjuangkan hasrat mereka untuk memiliki sendiri premis kerana mereka dah berniaga berbelas tahun dan dah bayar sewa tinggi.
“Saya akan tulis surat kepada Pengarah Perbadanan Putrajaya Tan Sri Dr Aseh Che Mat supaya dapat pertimbangkan sewa beli premis peniaga dan dapat kurangkan harga jualan sekaligus mengurangkan kos sara hidup,” katanya.
Selain itu, beliau juga berjanji untuk menghapuskan empat paratus servis caj kereta dan rumah yang dikenakan terhadap penjawat awam sekiranya berjaya memenangi kerusi Putrajaya.
“Di Kelantan caj kepada pekerja awam itu dah dihapuskan sejak tahun 1990 lagi,” katanya yang berhasrat mempertahankan kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Salor.- fmt
Husam for Putrajaya a 'high risk, high returns' run...
PAS vice-president Husam Musa is “not confident” about his chances against BN in the federal administrative capital Putrajaya, but when quizzed on why he would take such a risk, the answer was sitting on the tip of his tongue.
“High risk, high returns,” he quipped without missing a beat at his press conference in Putrajaya today.Speaking to a room-full of reporters, Husam said that in fact, his bid in Putrajaya has a symbolic meaning.
“Putrajaya is not about this town, bridges and roads. It’s about the federal capital.
“Even if Putrajaya is at the bottom of the Malacca Straits, I will contest there,” he said.
“Putrajaya is where the creme of society is at, and I am merely hitching on the wisdom of these people.”
Lauding his likely opponent, incumbent MP Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, Husam said that he is merely an "ant" next to an "elephant", but “sometimes ants can topple elephants if they work hard".
"Tengku Adnan has already said that he will get the support of two-thirds of the people here, and I am afraid," he admitted.
Husam will also be defending the Kelantan state seat of Salor, where he hopes his track record will be viewed favourably.
“There 60 flights from Kuala Lumpur to Kelantan daily, so it is not a problem,” he said, adding that Salor is where his home is.
On the second day of his campaign, Husam - who is part of the Kelantan caretaker government - said that he is surprised with the openness of the civil servants whom he had met on his walkabouts and ceramahs.
Inside info from civil servants
In his walkabout this morning, he was stopped at the National Registration Department (NRD) by some civil servants in uniform who took pictures with him.
"It shows that they are not afraid," he said, dismissing the suggestion that most of those who approached him are Kelantanese, and not voters of Putrajaya.
"Senior civil service officers have also made appointments to meet me. So we will be getting inside information," he added.
Most he met had complained of rising cost of living and this, he said, could be addressed in parts by introducing a hire-purchase policy for shop owners.
"Everyday goods are expensive because these premises are hired at a high rate, and at times, via middlemen.
"I will write to Perbadanan Putrajaya president Aseh Che Mat (left) to propose a hire-purchase scheme so vendors can sell goods at a lower price," he said.He also proposed the abolition of the four percent service fee charged to civil servants who take up loans from the government.
He claimed that this will assist in increasing disposable income, particular among the support staff.
"In Kelantan, we abolished this in 1990 and we did not run into any financial difficulty," he said.
"If Pakatan wins, I will propose that we abolish this immediately, but for existing loans, we will set up a committee to review the implications and if it is not burdensome to the government, it should be scrapped, particularly for the support staff."
He said among the other complaints which he received included a promise of a sekolah agama in 2011, purportedly by caretaker education minister Muhyiddin Yassin, which has yet to be fulfilled.
He claimed that the school is now squatting in the premises of a primary school.
BN's Tengku Adnan defeated PAS's Mohammad Nor Mohamad in 2008 with about three-quarters of the total vote. But his majority dropped by about 1,000 votes, as compared with the 2004 general election.-malaysiakini
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