Hisham: Opposition not taking polls seriously

He said DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng reportedly saying that he did not think DAP could win two-thirds of the majority and establish a ruling government showed that the party was not treating the elections seriously.

“If you said those things, then there is no use coming out with a party manifesto,” Hishammuddin said.

“It means they are promising things they know they cannot deliver,” he said, adding that such tactics were designed to confuse the rakyat.

Hishammuddin, who is also Education Minister, said other opposition parties were not that much different.

“The coalition of opposition parties claims they are the alternative but their manifestos are different from each other,” he said after launching the SM Sains Sembrong boarding school here yesterday.

Hishammuddin added that PKR putting up posters of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in Permatang Pauh instead of incumbent Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Ismail also showed the party was treating the elections as a game.

“PKR has even announced openly that the Permatang Pauh seat would be vacated once they won it, to give way to him (Anwar).

“He (Anwar) is willing to sacrifice his wife’s seat for his own sake,” he said, adding that this was a desperate tactic.

Hishammuddin said he would go to Permatang Pauh to assist Barisan Nasional’s machinery there.

“We want to win back all the seats there and deny PKR any chance,” he said.

--THE STAR