Finishing Touch From Dr Mahathir In Bukit Selambau

SUNGAI PETANI, April 3 (Bernama) -- The Barisan Nasional (BN) campaign in the Bukit Selambau state by-election will be boosted further with the return of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to Umno on Monday, providing a finishing touch to the campaign just 15 hours before the voters go to the polls.
His son, Datuk Mukhriz, said the former prime minister was expected to attend a gathering at the Mara Skills Institute field at about 5.30pm.
Mukhriz said the former Umno president would announce his return to Umno at the gathering, during which he would also rally the people to support BN's candidate Datuk S. Ganesan.
Mukhriz, who is Jerlun member of Parliament, expects Dr Mahathir's presence to create a positive impact for the BN, especially in attracting fence-sitters.
"Tun (Dr Mahathir) will meet the people and rally them to support the BN," he told reporters after visiting the Tasek Apong polling centre here.
Joining Dr Mahathir back to Umno would be his supporters as well as Mukhriz's brother, Mokhzani, who has applied to rejoin the Merbok Umno division.
On the statement by a supporter of Dr Mahathir, Maj (Rtd) Anuar Abdul Hamid, who is one of the 13 independent candidates in the area, that he would rejoin Umno if the former prime minister did so, Mukhriz said, the BN had decided that the Bukit Selambau seat be given to MIC.
"BN has given the seat MIC and we will campaign for the BN," he said.
Anuar, a former Merbok Umno division committee member, recently said that if if Dr Mahathir rejoined Umno who would also do so even if he won seat on an independent ticket.
On Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's appointment as the prime minister, Mukhriz said he expected Najib to bring political and economic stability.
"Najib has a good example to follow... his father (the late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein) who became the prime minister at a time when the country was facing a political crisis," he said.

tunku : when Tun said he will rejoin umno and will campaign for bn, the opposition especially anwar panicked.anwar with his latest melodrama queen act said that he will reveal something big about najib tomorrow just to get attention from the public which he sees leaving the pakatan.if he really has something to reveal why he had kept it all these while, why didn't he report it to the police or macc?
wonder where is kj? no news about him campaigning. may be he campaigns in the middle of teh night without the presents of media.
Mukhriz keep up the good work with high spirit.