10-21-2022, 07:25 PM
Bagan Datuk battle: Shamsul Iskandar wants to be giant killer again
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KUALA LUMPUR – Could Datuk Seri Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin be PKR’s choice for Bagan Datuk when nominations for the 15th general election (GE15) are announced on November 5?
Shamsul, who is the incumbent Hang Tuah Jaya MP in Melaka, said he is willing to give up his safe seat to follow his boss, PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, to Perak and take on Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
“If Anwar can go to Tambun, then I feel some of us senior people in the party should also go down to Perak. So, I offered myself for Bagan Datuk,” Shamsul told The Vibes.
Shamsul, 48, is considered a giant killer, having beaten then Melaka chief minister Tun Mohd Ali Rustam in the Bukit Katil parliamentary seat in the 2013 election. He retained the seat, which was renamed Hang Tuah Jaya in 2018.
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Shamsul, who is the incumbent Hang Tuah Jaya MP in Melaka, said he is willing to give up his safe seat to follow his boss, PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, to Perak and take on Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
“If Anwar can go to Tambun, then I feel some of us senior people in the party should also go down to Perak. So, I offered myself for Bagan Datuk,” Shamsul told The Vibes.
Shamsul, 48, is considered a giant killer, having beaten then Melaka chief minister Tun Mohd Ali Rustam in the Bukit Katil parliamentary seat in the 2013 election. He retained the seat, which was renamed Hang Tuah Jaya in 2018.
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