GUA MUSANG – Pakatan Harapan (PH) prefers to woo voters in the Nenggiri by-election by going house to house to listen to people’s needs, a coalition leader said.
Deputy defence minister Adly Zahari, who is PH’s by-election director for the state seat in Kelantan, said this approach was more effective to understand the people’s issues, rather than campaigning through public speeches or ceramah.
“We will continue to focus on the needs and welfare of the people, by going house-to-house.
“When we go door-to-door, hold group talks and dialogue sessions, the people are closer to us.
“(Whereas) holding ceramah is a one-way talk, we talk, but the community doesn’t talk,” Bernama quoted him saying while on the campaign trail for the unity government candidate in Bertam, here.
Adly added, PH has been focused on meeting voters who are deemed “fence-sitters” to give them information about the federal unity government, in which PH and Umno-Barisan Nasional (BN) are allies.
The Nenggiri seat used to be an Umno seat but was won by Perikatan Nasional (PN) for the first time in the state elections in August last year.
“There are many perceptions they receive about the government, so our role is to explain what the government has done.
“We try our best to resolve people’s issues if there are any that are related to the federal government because we have (relevant) agencies to help them,” he said.
The Nenggiri state by-election is on August 17 and will see a straight fight between Barisan Nasional candidate Mohd Azmawi Fikri Abdul Ghani and PN’s Mohd Rizwadi Ismail.
The by-election was called after the seat was declared vacant by Kelantan State Assembly Speaker Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah on June 19 because its incumbent Mohd Azizi Abu Naim had been revoked of his membership by his party Bersatu. – August 11, 2024