Opposition Facing an Uphill task in Sibu Election.

Once again we are faced with another By-Election because of the demise of five-term SUPP member of Parliament, Robert Lau.The by-election this time will be contested in the Land of the Hornbill between DAP stalwart Wong and SUPP Lau.

What perhaps irks neutral voters is the blatant open support of the Election Commision in trying to lend a helping hand for B.N to win the by-election. Like in the Hulu By- election the election commission was fiddling with the electoral rolls by transferring eligible voters from the Sibu constituency to another constitiency.Quite obviously this electoral exercise was to deprive certain voters from voting in the coming by-election.It seems the Election Commission has this habit of carrying out such transferring exercise whenever there is an imminent by-election and the reason for this is only best known to the Electoral commission.And no prize for guessing which voters are transferred out from the constituency.

However, now we see another branch of the govt apparatus also getting into the act of giving the B.N govt some moral support in the form of issuing warnings to the campaigning parties that the act of even mentioning the 'Allah' issue was now off limits.

Sarawak OCCI SACll Huzir Mohamad has declared that all political parties should stop using the 'Allah' issue during the campaign period.One may ask who are the police to dictate to the political parties what issue should and and what issues should not be used for the political campaign?Should the opposition stop using the 'Allah' issue because it will put the govt in a bad light? Against such formidable foes like the Election Commission and the PDRM, it is not difficult to envisage an impossible and herculean task for the opposition candidate to win the Sibu by-election.