GE14: Federal, Johor governments must be BN, says Johor MB




PONTIAN, April 19 (Bernama) -- Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin today urged the people of Johor to elect the Barisan Nasional (BN) at the federal and state levels, saying it is necessary to have governments from the same party at the two levels to fulfil the pledges made to the people.

"We must make sure that we can fulfil the pledges made, but it must be understood that the federal and state governments must be from the same team (party).

"If the state government is from one team and the federal government from another, it would be difficult for us at the state level to achieve our targets. So make sure that the state and federal governments are from the same team, the blue team, not the 'haphazard' (opposition) team," he said at a meet-the-people session at Dataran Kukup here which was also attended by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Mohamed Khaled said he was confident the people in Tanjung Piai would enable the BN to retain the parliamentary seat as well as the Kukup state seat within it and capture the Pekan Nenas state seat now held by the DAP.

"As the Tanjung Piai BN chief (Datuk Md Othman Yusof) said, I am confident that we will give BN 3-0. We will show Datuk Seri Najib that his visit here (Tanjung Piai) is not in vain and that the people here will reciprocate well," he said.

He also said he hoped that the people would study the comprehensive, inclusive and all-encompassing BN manifesto which would ensure that nobody was left out of the many pledges and development plans.

The BN manifesto comprised 300 comprehensive, balanced, focused and responsible pledges, far different from Pakatan Harapan's which had only 60 pledges, he said.

Mohamed Khaled said the Johor BN manifesto had 230 pledges while the Johor Pakatan Harapan manifesto only had 20.

"This means that each year they (Pakatan Harapan) can only implement four pledges. So, I hope we will all give our support not just to the PM but also to the candidates of our party," he said.

-- BERNAMA