'Citizenship for votes' now in Kelantan?

PAS suspects that this is part of a BN move to create a body of ‘phantom voters’ nationwide, ahead of the 13th general election.

Following PKR's allegation that an attempt has been made to give citizenship to foreigners in Selangor in order to secure votes for BN, PAS now suspects that the same thing is happening in Kelantan.

PAS central committee member Kamaruddin Jaafar said the National Registration Department will conduct a large-scale exercise dubbed 'Mydaftar' in Pengkalan Kubor, Tumpat, on Saturday.

"I was told that they can get (a Mykad) the same day if they bring relevant documents," said the Tumpat MP.

Kamaruddin furnished a document to back his claim - a letter written by the Pengkalan Kubor district penghulu (local official) to an imam of a mosque in the district, informing him of the exercise.

The contents of the letter were announced by the mosque official to the congregation before the afternoon prayer last Friday, according to Kamaruddin.

He believes the same letter has been sent to all mosques in Pengkalan Kubor so that the information can be disseminated to the public.

"We urge them to stop this (exercise). This clearly shows an attempt to create (a body of) 'phantom' voters nationwide," he told a press conference at the PAS headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.

However, he conceded that there is no concrete information to prove that the exercise is aimed at recruiting new citizens to vote for BN.