BN won using race card, says Pakatan's Manogaran

Lee Chi Leong Lee Chi Leong Updated 5 years ago · Published on 26 Jan 2019 8:24PM · 6 Comments

M. Manogaran’s loss in the by-election today is his third failed attempt at the federal seat in Pahang, after contesting it twice in the 2013 and 2019 general elections. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, January 26, 2019.

PAKATAN Harapan’s defeated candidate M. Manogaran blamed the ruling coalition’s loss in the Cameron Highlands by-election on Barisan Nasional’s use of the race card.

“BN used the race factor. I don’t blame voters. This will only make us stronger as we are beyond religion and race,” the DAP politician said in his first remarks to reporters after unofficial results showed that BN had kept the seat.

Manogaran’s loss in the by-election today is his third failed attempt at the federal seat in Pahang, after contesting it twice in the 2013 and 2019 general elections.

The former Teluk Intan MP, however, said this by-election marked the start of new inroads to reach voters in Jelai, where BN retained its grip.

“Although we lost, we have made inroads to the Orang Asli in Jelai. This shows that, in the future, it will be better.

“We need to continue serving Jelai as well as Tanah Rata. We have tremendous machinery. Unfortunately, the environment is different.

“It was a very interior place… we did well. We have proven this today,” he said at the PH operations centre in Brinchang.

Votes are still being counted at the EC’s tallying centre in Tanah Rata before an official announcement is made, but BN’s win was called when its candidate, Ramli Mohd Nor, won 11,381 votes compared with PH’s 7,182, giving BN a 4,199-vote majority. – January 26, 2019.

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  • The winner is a local man, an Orang Asli and he has the character to represent the Orang Asli.... he is clean. TunM should invite him to join Bersatu and made him a Minister!

    Posted 5 years ago by [email protected] · Reply

  • He should resign his BN ticket and become an Independent. He is clean, he is local and obviously gains the support of the OA community..
    BN will keep him under lock & key Im certain to prevent him from jumping ship!
    On hindsight, maybe it would have been better if they selected a PKR candidate (eg Rafizi) for Cameron Highlands, as it has been a BN stronghold for years.. The chances would have been better..
    Again, its all about strategy..

    Posted 5 years ago by Kampung Boy · Reply

  • No M. Manogaran. Nothing to do with the race or religion factor.. All these cards are played from the early GE in the 50s until now. It should not surprise PH and please do not use that as the sole reasons for self consoling.. The Orang Asli MP alone was also not the crucial factor ( it was a well planned strategy ) as there are also many other voters that would be able to neutralize the volume. Face the fact PH are now being detested if ever there is anymore surprises of flipflop decision from the manifestos there is no more a dilema for rakyat to make decision on choices from now on for any by elections till GE15. It is so simple request by Rakyat who are not at all looking for the full implemenation of the pre GE 14 pledges but the will and the plan to see it thru at a time line chart. There was none and yet still PH with their leaders are stupidly being arrogant in dishing out excuses to deny the reform implemenation. All the component partie of PH do not portray any convictions to see the New Malaysa Reform Agenda take shapes except for trivial and unimportant changes just to placate the rakayt patience. It does not work for after 60 years of being cheated and hookwinked the tolerance limit knows no more bound. It is now the talks in the street that PH do n not have integrity and sincerity to run the country. The new voters block are no more being communal in outlook and if Mahatir and Anwar or even the Ministers who are still banging around for Malay agenda and in the guise of uplifting the Malay race will not sell anymore. Malaysian are having hard times to manage their family economic livelihood . The bad adminstrations of UMNOBN culminating with the final two term of Najib administration majoring in plundering rather than administrating have really damaged the nations affecting every races in Malaysia. True the nons t this juncture may have much better resilence in facing the concerns but that does not mean that the Malay lopsided agenda should be continuious and draining the resources thin. It will create a concerns even for the nons where their tenacity to keep on weathering the unwarranted concerns will draw thin and eventually erode the fundamental economic pillars which are detrimental to the country macro economics. Enough of fool hardy from PH and it is better that Mahatir and Anwar should be magnanimous in gesture and step aside to let younger and dynamic talent pool runs the country.

    Posted 5 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

    • Anyway I am predicting a very thin margin of winning for PH or maybe it is PH to loose too.

      Posted 5 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

    • cont: in Semenyih

      Posted 5 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

    • Well said

      Posted 5 years ago by [email protected] · Reply