Home Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi warned criminal organisations and secret societies to stay out of the Teluk Intan by-election process and to not take advantage of the situation.
Zahid made the slightly left-of-field statement as a response to information he says he received that certain quarters have tried to profit from the by-election, scheduled to be held this Saturday, May 31.
“Don’t blackmail anyone, don’t interfere in politics. I know their faces, I know their names, I know they stay there and run here.
“I also know that some of them are opening gambling outlets for 31 days this month,” The Malay Mail Online reports him as saying at a meet-the-people session in Teluk Intan last night.
The Teluk Intan by-election will be a straight fight between BN candidate, Gerakan party president Datuk Mah Siew Kong and PR’s Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud of the DAP, a lawyer and Lim Kit Siang’s political secretary.
The by-election has generated intense buzz over the DAP’s decision to field Dyana, a Malay, as the DAP has traditionally been perceived as an ethnic Chinese-dominated party.
This turn of events of course beggars the question: if the federal minister in charge of the Royal Malaysian Police know who these criminals are, what they’re doing, and how they’re doing it, why hasn’t there been any police action against them?
