BN Youth to stir 'blue tsunami' in whirlwind KL tour

BN Youth yesterday kicked off its Pentas Pemuda ceramah series which Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin said could stir a tsunami to counter the turn of the tide in the 2008 general election. 

According to Khairy (right), the Wangsa Maju event last night was the first of eight in the next fortnight focusing specifically on the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, where the BN lost all but one seat. 

“A tsunami will come in the next general election and the wave will be a blue one with BN taking over,” he told the modest turnout of not more than 300 people, many of whom wore BN shirts. 

Unperturbed by the many empty seats, which he attributed to it being a rainy week-night, Khairy said that instead of viewing Kuala Lumpur as a “lost cause” for BN, the capital city should be seen as a catalyst for BN’s success at the polls. 

“This is where the blue wave will rise because people who come (to listen to us) in KL are not just from here but are also those who work and study here, but are voters elsewhere.

“If we don’t work hard to explain the issues to the ground here, what happened in KL could spread to other parts of the country, too,” he said, ringing the alarm bell. 

‘Nurul Izzah’s good looks’

According to Federal Territory BN Youth chief Rizalman Mokhtar, among the hot spots which Pentas Pemuda will visit are PKR-held seats Lembah Pantai, Batu and Bandar Tun Razak. 

“They say that the Federal Territory is Pakatan (Rakyat)’s stronghold (but PKR’s Lembah Pantai MP) Nurul Izzah (Anwar) has done nothing to benefit the people there. 

“But people think she looks sweet with her headscarf so they support her, while (Federal Territories Minister and likely BN Lembah Pantai candidate) Raja Nong Chik (Zainal Abidin) wears out shoe leather going up and down the constituency, but people write him off because he’s from Umno,” he lamented. 

Deputy youth chief Razali Ibrahim (right in photo) and BN Youth exco member Lokman Nor Adam also spoke at the event. 

BN lost all the KL parliamentary seats but Setiawangsa in 2008, conceding five seats to DAP, four to PKR and one to PAS.