Prabakaran easily defends Batu seat in 10-cornered fight

 

P Prabakaran said he was a little nervous going into the polls knowing he was up against some intimidating opponents. (Facebook pic)

KUALA LUMPUR: Pakatan Harapan (PH) defended the Batu parliamentary seat in the 15th general election (GE15) when incumbent P Prabakaran (PH-PKR) won in style over nine other challengers.

Prabakaran won handsomely with a majority of 22,241 after collecting a total of 45,716 votes, ahead of Azhar Yahya (Perikatan Nasional-PAS), who obtained 23,475 votes and MIC vice-president A Kohilan Pillay (Barisan Nasional-MIC) with 10,398 votes.

His predecessor in the seat, former PKR vice-president Tian Chua, who ran as an Independent could only garner 4,603 votes.

The other five challengers were lawyer Wan Azliana Wan Adnan of Pejuang (849 votes), Naganathan Pillai of Warisan (575 votes) and Zulkifli Abdul Fattah of Parti Rakyat Malaysia (137 votes).

Three other Independent candidates were lawyer Siti Zabedah Kasim or better known as Siti Kasim with 653 votes, social media influencer Nur Fathiah Syazwana Shaharudin @ Cleo (628) and Too Cheng Huat (112).

Meanwhile, Prabakaran told reporters that he was grateful to the voters in the Batu parliamentary constituency who chose him.

“I will meet my constituents face-to-face to thank them for their support. I admit that I was a little nervous knowing that I would be contesting against nine other candidates who are quite intimidating, but I am sure the voters in this area know who actually goes down to the ground to meet them,” he said.

In GE14, Prabakaran contested as an Independent candidate supported by PKR, defeating Dr Dominic Lau (BN-Gerakan), Azhar (PAS) and another Independent candidate V M Panjamothy, with a majority of 24,438 votes. - FMT