Gerakan president faces three-cornered fight in Teluk Intan
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TELUK INTAN, April 28 (Bernama) -- The Teluk Intan parliamentary seat and the two state seats under it are all witnessing three-cornered fights.
The incumbent Gerakan president Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong is being challenged by candidates from PKR-DAP and PAS.
Mah, 56, who was Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister, representing Barisan Nasional, is up against Perak DAP chairman Nga Kor Ming and PAS candidate Dr Ahmad Ramadzan Ahmad Daud.
The list of candidates eligible to contest was announced by Teluk Intan returning officer Azizan Abd Muin, at 11.58am.
According to Azizan, Mah who arrived at Dewan Bandaran Teluk Intan with about 500 supporters at 8.40am, was the first candidate to submit his nomination forms at 9.05am, followed by Nga at 9.10am and Dr Ahmad at 9.18am.
Mah's nomination was proposed by Tan Sri Kuan Peng Soon and seconded by Ahmad Helmi Yunos.
Mah won the Teluk Intan parliamentary seat in a by-election in 2014 by defeating Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud with a slim majority of 238 votes.
The seat was previously held by DAP's Seah Leong Peng, who died of cancer.
In the meantime, there will also be a three-cornered fight for the Pasir Berdamar state seat between BN candidate, Kong Sun Chin, Terence Naidu Raja Naidu (PKR-DAP) and PAS candidate Kumaresan Shanmugam.
For the Changkat Jong state seat, the BN candidate and incumbent assemblyman Datuk Mohd Azhar Jamaluddin, will face PKR candidate Muhammad Faizul Mohamed Ismail and Mohd Azhar Mohd Rafiei of PAS.
-- BERNAMA
