9.00am: Barisan Nasional Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan (centre) enters nomination hall accompanied by his wife Raja Datin Seri Salbiah. Also present are several Barisan Nasional leaders, including Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, vice-president Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri, MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong, and Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Husein.

8.50am: Pakatan Harapan’s candidate Dr Streram arrives at the nomination centre accompanied by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and other national leaders.

8.45am: Dr Streram addresses Pakatan supporters from the back of a lorry with other Pakatan leaders including Bersatu president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution, DAP’s M. Kulasegaran, PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah.

8.30am : Pakatan Harapan supporters in blue and red now number in the hundreds but are a mostly subdued crowd compared to the BN supporters.

Malar Rajaram

 

8.15am: The first candidate to arrive at the nomination centre is Malar Rajaram, who will be contesting as an independent. The 51-year-old from Kg Ganapathy here can speak Bahasa Malaysia, English and Mandarin and spent 25 years in Toronto, Canada. She is married and worked as a radio host and producer for 15 years while abroad. The housewife, who is the fifth of eight siblings, said she returned to Malaysia  to take care of her aged mother, who passed away in 2017. 
 
8.15am: PAS makes its presence felt as its supporters in green gather together with BN supporters about 100m from the entrance of the nomination centre. Shouts of ‘Allahuakbar’ heard from the crowd.

Datuk Ahmad Maslan (fourth from left) is among the BN supporters and representatives seen at the nomination centre.

 

7.45am: An early crowd gathers in anticipation of nomination at SJKC Bandar Sri Sendayan in Rantau, with more than 100 Barisan Nasional supporters, mainly from Umno in the signature blue shirts while others sport Tok Mat T-shirts. No signs of supporters wearing the red of Pakatan Harapan

RANTAU: The Rantau by-election gets underway, beginning with the nomination process at SJKC Sri Sendayan here on Saturday (March 30) morning.

Former Negri Sembilan Mentri Besar and incumbent Rantau assemblyman Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan from BN is expected to take on Pakatan Harapan’s  Dr S Streram.

The Rantau by-election was triggered following a Federal Court decision to uphold an earlier ruling by the Election Court to nullify the results for Rantau.

In GE14, Umno deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan won the state seat unopposed after Dr Streram was denied entry to submit his nomination papers as he did not have a tag or a pass.

Election Court judge Azimah Omar allowed Dr Streram’s petition for a by-election on the grounds that Mohamad’s election victory was not valid.

The Rantau polls is the seventh by-election post-GE14, and the third to be held in 2019 after Cameron Highlands and Semenyih. — THE STAR ONLINE

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