Young voters now in favour of BN: Muhyiddin
(Bernama) — Young voters, key to the country achieving developed nation status by the year 2020, now are in favor of the Barisan Nasional (BN), said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin.
He said the awareness of young voters to the BN’s ability to continue leading the country was stronger now because they knew only the BN could assure a better future for Malaysia.
“With the (general) election nearing, it seems that this wave of consciousness is very evident, I say congratulations to the young people … just a while go I saw a banner captioned “Orang muda sokong BN” (Young People Support the BN).
“We gathered a million youths in Putrajaya and they wanted Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to remain as the Prime Minister of Malaysia,” he said when addressing guests of the 1Malaysia People’s Feast at Kampung Sungai Bahagia’s football field in Manir here today.
Also present were Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Said and Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek.
Muhyiddin said BN would assure that no group of people whether in Peninsular Malaysia , Sabah or Sarawak would be left out of mainstream development if it remained in power till 2020.
He said the BN government today was entrusted with the responsibility ensure the people’s well-being.
He said, in implementing the trust, the government always ensured the national economy expanded, job opportunities increased, industries became more advanced and better social facilities such as in health and education.
“We promise Malaysia will become a developed nation in eight years. Every level of people, old, young, all communities, Peninsular, Sabah and Sarawak will be given attention and will be well looked after,” he said.
He said it was not an empty promise because BN would assure that by 2020, Malaysia would become a developed nation according to the people’s aspiration.
In the meantime, he said PAS would not be able to become the party to look after the welfare of the Malays and Islam in the country as Umno had done all these all this while.
‘When we help the people, PAS calls it corruption. I do not know what decree they use, as it is our duty to the people,” he said.
He said the BN government had never played favourites in helping the people because what was important was that they were loyal to King and country.
He also said that he was confident that Terengganu would remain under BN with the support of every layer of society who wanted to see continuous change and development in the state.
He expected the support of the people of Terengganu towards Umno and BN would be higher compared to the previous general election.
“Let us together, with determination and resolve, bring changes to the Muslim community in the state under Umno and BN,” he said.
During the ceremony, which was attended by some 15,000 people, he also announced an allocation of RM2.9 million to repair houses of the poor and to build facilities for the people in the Manir state constituency.
