KUCHING: Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) top guns are already in Balingian to help in the campaign for Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate Yussibnosh Balo.
The party’s secretary general, Datuk Wilfred Rata Nissom, said most if not all of the party’s elected representatives and political secretaries had gone to the ground and would be there until polling day on March 29.
“Apparently, the BN operations room is involving our party more and more now and many of our leaders, including president Tan Sri (Datuk Amar) Dr James Masing, deputy president Datuk Joseph Entulu Belaun and the rest are all there.
“They are focusing mainly in Iban areas where they have close connection with some of our leaders such as Datuk Joseph Entulu and Datuk Joseph Mauh Ikeh,” he revealed.
He said it was unclear whether the party leaders had been provided with some funding to conduct their campaigning activities but even if there was none it did not really matter to them.
“As what our party president had said earlier, PRS is prepared to use whatever resources it has to help in the campaign. What we want is for BN to win big,” Nissom stressed.
Last Saturday, Masing suggested that the state BN be more accommodative to PRS which wanted to have greater participation in the campaign for the by-election.
He told a news conference then that there was apparently lack of coordination among the BN component parties to conduct their campaign.
According to him, many of their men had to travel back and forth from Sibu whenever they wanted to participate in campaign activities. He also said that since nomination day on March 17 his boys had been on the ground and their presence there was not just to form a crowd but to win votes especially in areas where they could be more effective.
Masing, who is Land Development Minister, stated that their focus would be more on Iban and Christian areas where the party could be more relevant and effective.
-originally posted on Borneo Post, 27 March 2014
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