Support the women

By LOOI SUE CHERN

WOMEN voters in Bagan were told to give their support to the women candidates standing in the constituency.

Wanita MCA chief Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen said if all women voters in the constituency voted for Barisan Nasional’s Bagan parliamentary candidate Song Choy Leng and Teh Lay Cheng (Sungai Puyu state seat), the ruling coalition would have a good chance to grab the seat back from the Oppo-sition.

“If women cast their votes for Choy Leng, we will have a 70% chance to win in Bagan. The fight for Bagan is tough but winning is not impossible,” she said at the Bagan MCA headquarters yesterday.


Ng (second right) leading BN Sungai Puyu candidate Teh Lay Cheng (third right); Bagan candidate Song Choy Leng (left) and Bayan Baru candidate Ooi Siew Kim (forth right) to meet residents at Sungai Puyu.
She said Bagan should have a full-time MP serving them instead of DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.

Lim who is contesting against Song would be dividing his time between Penang and Malacca, where his family lived, she said.

During a visit to Taman Oi Leng in Sungai Puyu, Dr Ng also called on the people to support incumbent Bagan Jermal assemblyman Ooi Chuan Aik, who she described as a hardworking state representative.

Dr Ng said the present government had helped the people by subsiding fuel and gas prices and abolishing school fees among others.

There, the residents handed a memorandum to Dr Ng, asking her to assist them from being evicted by the Royal Malaysian Air Force which owned the land.

Dr Ng promised that MCA would look into the matter.

“That would be Song’s first task if she is elected an MP,” Ng said.

Also present were Song, Teh, Ooi, Penang MCA Wanita chief and Bayan Baru parliamentary candidate Ooi Siew Kim, and Bagan MCA division chairman Datuk Wei Bak Hoe.