Calon PAS untuk pilihan raya kecil Kuala Besut Azlan Yusof hari ini
mengakui pernah bergiat sebagai ketua pemuda Umno cawangan di kampungnya
tetapi menegaskan ia dilakukan masa "tidak cerdik"
"Zaman dulu orang kampung saya, orang PAS ada lapan orang sahaja," katanya ketika diminta mengesahkan perkara itu oleh pemberita dalam sidang media selepas penamaan calon hari ini.
Diasak oleh wartawan supaya beliau mengakuinya, Azlan berkata:
"Betullah... Tapi sekarang ini orang muda kampung saya boleh dikatakan semua bersama saya. Malam tadi hampir semua orang kampung keluar pasang bendera.
"(Masuk Umno) dulu masa tak cerdik, tapi dah baligh dah. Tapi sekarang dah cerdik dah," katanya sambil diiringi ketawa kecil.
Menurutnya ahli perniagaan dan kontraktor itu, beliau menyertai PAS pada 1997.
Azlan juga berkata beliau bersedia berdepan dengan pelbagai tohmahan kepada beliau sepanjang kempen pilihan raya kecil ini dan menganggap tindakan itu "perkara biasa".
"Kita bersedia, janji kita tak buat benda yang dilarang oleh Allah. Orang kata apa, silakan.
'Harap (kurang tohmahan). Calon sana kita kenal keluarga dia, dia kenal keluarga kita.
"Datuk Idris (Jusoh), kita kenal juga, dia juga sayang dekat kita," katanya yang menolak kempen memburukkan peribadi sepanjang proses berkempen.
Pilihan raya kecil itu akan menyaksikan pertembungan satu lawan satu antara Azlan dan calon BN.
"Zaman dulu orang kampung saya, orang PAS ada lapan orang sahaja," katanya ketika diminta mengesahkan perkara itu oleh pemberita dalam sidang media selepas penamaan calon hari ini.
Diasak oleh wartawan supaya beliau mengakuinya, Azlan berkata:
"Betullah... Tapi sekarang ini orang muda kampung saya boleh dikatakan semua bersama saya. Malam tadi hampir semua orang kampung keluar pasang bendera.
"(Masuk Umno) dulu masa tak cerdik, tapi dah baligh dah. Tapi sekarang dah cerdik dah," katanya sambil diiringi ketawa kecil.
Menurutnya ahli perniagaan dan kontraktor itu, beliau menyertai PAS pada 1997.
Azlan juga berkata beliau bersedia berdepan dengan pelbagai tohmahan kepada beliau sepanjang kempen pilihan raya kecil ini dan menganggap tindakan itu "perkara biasa".
"Kita bersedia, janji kita tak buat benda yang dilarang oleh Allah. Orang kata apa, silakan.
'Harap (kurang tohmahan). Calon sana kita kenal keluarga dia, dia kenal keluarga kita.
"Datuk Idris (Jusoh), kita kenal juga, dia juga sayang dekat kita," katanya yang menolak kempen memburukkan peribadi sepanjang proses berkempen.
Pilihan raya kecil itu akan menyaksikan pertembungan satu lawan satu antara Azlan dan calon BN.
Dalam
pilihan raya umum lalu, allahyarham A Rahman Mokthar daripada BN
menewaskan calon PAS Napsiah Ismail dengan majoriti 2,434 undi. Pilihan
raya itu diadakan ekoran kematian A Rahman akibat kanser.Husam tuntut liputan RTM Sementara itu, pengarah jawatankuasa induk pilihan raya kecil Kuala Besut PAS Datuk Husam Musa (kiri) menuntut Menteri Penerangan dan Komunikasi Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek memberi liputan kepada calon PAS di RTM.
"Kita harap mendapat liputan. Jangan footage sahaja, tetapi adalah sikit suara-suara, yang molek-molek," katanya dalam sidang media sama.
"(Tapi) Kita seganlah nak minta, itu eksklusif untuk parti pemerintah," sindir naib presiden PAS itu.-malaysiakini
PAS candidate: I joined Umno when I was 'ignorant'...
PAS’ candidate for the Kuala Besut
by-election, Azlan Yusof, today admitted that he was a former Umno
division youth chief, but claimed he joined the ruling party when he was
“ignorant”.
“(When I joined Umno) at that time I was not smart, but now I've reached maturity. Now I am smart,” he said cheekily when questioned by reporters about his Umno membership at a press conference shortly after his nomination.
“In those times, in my village, there were only eight PAS members,” he said.
Azlan, who is a businessman and contractor, said that he joined PAS later on in 1997.
“(When I joined Umno) at that time I was not smart, but now I've reached maturity. Now I am smart,” he said cheekily when questioned by reporters about his Umno membership at a press conference shortly after his nomination.
“In those times, in my village, there were only eight PAS members,” he said.Azlan, who is a businessman and contractor, said that he joined PAS later on in 1997.
He also claimed that all the youths in his current village are supportive of him.
“Last night almost all the village folk came out to put up flags,” he said.
Azlan, however, said that he was prepared to receive any “criticism” directed aimed at him during the campaigning period.
“We are prepared, as long as we don’t do anything that is against Allah’s teachings. Whatever people want to say, I welcome them,” he said.
“But hopefully we can reduce this during the fasting month. (The BN) candidate, we know his family, and he knows our family,” he added.
“Even Idris (Jusoh, former Terengganu MB and current Education Minister II) knows us, he also loves us,” he added.
Meanwhile, PAS’ election director for the by-election, Husam Musa (left), hoped that Communications and Multimedia Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek would be able to allocate some airtime for PAS’ campaign drive over national television channels.
“We hope to get coverage, not just footage,” he said.-malaysiakini
“Last night almost all the village folk came out to put up flags,” he said.
Azlan, however, said that he was prepared to receive any “criticism” directed aimed at him during the campaigning period.
“We are prepared, as long as we don’t do anything that is against Allah’s teachings. Whatever people want to say, I welcome them,” he said.
“But hopefully we can reduce this during the fasting month. (The BN) candidate, we know his family, and he knows our family,” he added.
“Even Idris (Jusoh, former Terengganu MB and current Education Minister II) knows us, he also loves us,” he added.
Meanwhile, PAS’ election director for the by-election, Husam Musa (left), hoped that Communications and Multimedia Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek would be able to allocate some airtime for PAS’ campaign drive over national television channels.
“We hope to get coverage, not just footage,” he said.-malaysiakini
PRK Kuala Besut - UMNO lawan PAS...
Hanya PAS dan Barisan Nasional (BN) sahaja mengemukakan calon bagi
Pilihan Raya Kecil (PRK) Dewan Undangan Negeri (Dun) Kuala Besut.
Pada penamaan yang berakhir sebentar tadi, PRK Kuala Besut menyaksikan pertembungan antara calon PAS, Azlan @ Endot Yusof dengan calon BN, Tengku Zaihan Che Ku Abdul Rahman.
Pegawai pengurus PRK N01 Dun Kuala Besut itu, A. Rahim Jusoh, Azlan ketika mengumumkan demikian berkata, Azlan mengemukakan borang penamaan calon pada jam 9.03 pagi, diikuti Tengku Zaihan tujuh minit kemudian.
Beliau menjelaskan bahawa tiada calon yang ditolak sehingga waktu penamaan ditutup jam 10 pagi.
Penamaan calon bagi PKR Kuala Besut diadakan di Kompleks Rakan Muda Kuala Besut.
Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) menetapkan 24 Julai hari membuang undi PRK Kuala Besut sementara penamaan calon pada 12 Julai.
PRK Kuala Besut diadakan berikutan kematian penyandangnya Datuk Dr A Rahman Mokhtar pada 26 Jun lalu kerana kanser paru-paru.
Pada PRU13 lalu, allahyarham memperolehi 8,809 undi sementara calon PAS, Napisah Ismail mendapat 6,375 undi.-harakahdaily
Pada penamaan yang berakhir sebentar tadi, PRK Kuala Besut menyaksikan pertembungan antara calon PAS, Azlan @ Endot Yusof dengan calon BN, Tengku Zaihan Che Ku Abdul Rahman.
Pegawai pengurus PRK N01 Dun Kuala Besut itu, A. Rahim Jusoh, Azlan ketika mengumumkan demikian berkata, Azlan mengemukakan borang penamaan calon pada jam 9.03 pagi, diikuti Tengku Zaihan tujuh minit kemudian.
Beliau menjelaskan bahawa tiada calon yang ditolak sehingga waktu penamaan ditutup jam 10 pagi.
Penamaan calon bagi PKR Kuala Besut diadakan di Kompleks Rakan Muda Kuala Besut.
Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) menetapkan 24 Julai hari membuang undi PRK Kuala Besut sementara penamaan calon pada 12 Julai.
PRK Kuala Besut diadakan berikutan kematian penyandangnya Datuk Dr A Rahman Mokhtar pada 26 Jun lalu kerana kanser paru-paru.
Pada PRU13 lalu, allahyarham memperolehi 8,809 undi sementara calon PAS, Napisah Ismail mendapat 6,375 undi.-harakahdaily
Kuala Besut by-election: UMNO vs PAS...
The Barisan Nasional (BN) and PAS are clashing head on for the Kuala Besut state seat in the by-election on July 24, a repeat of the by-election held 34 years ago also during the Ramadan month.
Civil engineer Tengku Zaihan Che Ku Abd Rahman, 37, is defending the seat for the BN while Endot alias Azlan Yusof, 48, of PAS is his challenger.
Tengku Zaihan submitted his nomination papers at 9.10am to returning officer A Rahim Jusoh at the nomination centre in the Kuala Besut Rakan Muda Complex. Endot took his turn seven minutes earlier.
In 1979, the BN and PAS were involved in a straight fight for the Kuala Besut seat in a by-election that was also held during Ramadan.
The current polls has been necessitated by the death of assemblyperson Dr A Rahman Mokhtar of the BN on June 26.
Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who is BN's Kuala Besut by-election director, led some 3,000 party supporters in accompanying Tengku Zaihan to the nomination centre.
Azlan, the PAS candidate, was accompanied by the party's president Abdul Hadi Awang, and a similar number of supporters.
Tengku Zaihan in a blue Baju Melayu, was accompanied into the nomination centre by his proposer Datuk Wan Zakaria Abd Rahman and seconder Roslan Ayob.
Azlan, who was attired in a green Baju Melayu, had Ayat Hadi Mamat as his proposer and Zulkarnain Abdullah as the seconder.
A slight drizzle from early morning did not deter the supporters of both parties from marching to the nomination centre with their candidates in an orderly manner under the watchful eyes of the police.
Tengku Zaihan is a civil engineer who was with the Drainage and Irrigation Department in Putrajaya and had served for five years at the Besut district office of the DID.
He hails from Kampung Nail, Kuala Besut, and had served the local community in his capacity as the district engineer after joining the DID 15 years ago.
Tengku Zaihan expressed his determination to retain the seat for the BN, saying he saw a good opportunity to do that in the straight fight.
"I foresee no problem in getting close to the people, as I have been doing so all this while," he told reporters after the nomination.
Azlan, a contractor and businessman, is the PAS treasurer for Besut. He hails from Kuala Besut and lives in Kampung Baru.Mission to achieve '16-16 Terengganu Baru'
Azlan said PAS was bent on its mission to achieve "16-16 Terengganu Baru" (A New Terengganu 16-16) by winning the by-election, referring to the number of seats that the BN and Pakatan Rakyat would have if PAS were to win the by-election.
The BN formed the Terengganu state government after winning 17 seats in the general election on May 5. PAS had won 14 seats and PKR, one.
This by-election has drawn great interest because a PAS victory would end in both the BN and Pakatan Rakyat having 16 seats each, resulting in a hung state assembly.
Advance voting for the by-election is on July 20 and polling on July 24.
The by-election in 1979, also during Ramadan, saw Wan Zakaria Wan Abdul Rahman of the BN beat Husin Jusoh of PAS by 797 votes. It was called after assemblyperson Zakaria Muda died, also on June 26 in 1979.
Dr Rahman had won the seat in the general election on May 5 by beating Napisah Ismail of PAS by 2,434 votes.
The Kuala Besut state constituency has 17,683 voters, of which the Malays make up 17,463; Chinese, 125; and others, the rest.
The BN is using the slogan 'Kuala Besut bertambah Biru' to press for a bigger victory for the coalition while PAS intends to create a '16-16' stalemate.-malaysiakini
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