Campaign heats up as PAS alleges assault

[...] Salahuddin, who heads the party's by-election machinery here, said the attacks are a sign of Umno's desperation in the campaign.

“We have seen this pattern before,” he told reporters at the daily media briefing here.

Salahuddin added that the claim by Umno's Datuk Abdul Azeez Rahim that he was attacked by PAS members on nomination day was an initial attempt by the Malay party to provoke PAS members, but the effort failed.

One of the victims of the assault, Mohd Sahid Mohammad, 27, claimed that the attackers confronted him at 2.30 this morning, asking him to close down the PAS operations centre in Taman Datuk Abdul Samad.

“There were more than 20 of them, they wanted us to dismantle our operations centre, they said we were making their job difficult,” Sahid told The Malaysian Insider.- + selanjutnya

Campaign heats up as PAS alleges assault