{"id":776,"date":"2009-08-27T05:12:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T21:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2009\/08\/permatang-pasir-assemblyman-to-focus-on-welfare-socio-economic-development\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T05:12:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T21:12:18","slug":"permatang-pasir-assemblyman-to-focus-on-welfare-socio-economic-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/permatang-pasir-assemblyman-to-focus-on-welfare-socio-economic-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Permatang Pasir assemblyman to focus on welfare, socio-economic development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_byline\"><em>By DERRICK VINESH and TAN SIN CHOW<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BUKIT MERTAJAM: The new Permatang Pasir assemblyman Mohd Salleh Man said he will focus on ba-sic infrastructure, welfare and socio-economic development in his constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Mohd Salleh said he would raise the need for aid at the state assembly, state Pakatan Rakyat Council and via the state executive councillors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring my campaign rounds, I took note of some of the constituents\u2019 woes. I will do my best to at-tend to them,\u201d he said in an interview yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Mohd Salleh, 52, who is state PAS commissioner, defeated Barisan Na-sional candidate Rohaizat Othman, 38, by a 4,551 majority in the Perma-tang Pasir state by-election on Tues-day.<\/p>\n<p>Mohd Salleh will also occupy the service centre of former assemblyman, the late Datuk Mohd Hamdan Abdul Rahman, in Jalan Permatang Pasir. Mohd Hamdan died on July 31.<\/p>\n<p>Mohd Salleh said he would also start a mobile service centre to reach out to constituents living in remote areas.<\/p>\n<p>In another development, the state exco meeting yesterday endorsed the proposal for Mohd Salleh to be appointed to head the Penang Is-lamic Religious Council.<\/p>\n<p>During the by-election campaign, both Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had pledged that Mohd Salleh would be proposed as the council president if he won.<\/p>\n<p>Lim told a press conference that state Religious Affairs committee chairman Abdul Malik Abul Kassim was tasked with seeking the royal consent from the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Governor, over Mohd Salleh\u2019s proposed appointment.<\/p>\n<p>The post is now held by Permatang Berangan assemblyman Shahbudin Yahya from Umno. His term ends in December.<\/p>\n<p>Lim said claims by some Umno leaders that the majority in the by-election was reduced by 900 votes were baseless as Mohd Salleh ob-tained 65% of the votes, equal to the percentage secured by Mohd Hamdan in last year\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n<p>Lim added that PAS secured victories with increased votes in two Chinese majority polling areas \u2013 Permatang Pauh and Kampung Cross Street.-The Star Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DERRICK VINESH and TAN SIN CHOW BUKIT MERTAJAM: The new Permatang Pasir assemblyman Mohd Salleh Man said he will focus on ba-sic infrastructure, welfare and socio-economic development in his constituency. Mohd Salleh said he would raise the need for aid at the state assembly, state Pakatan Rakyat Council and via the state executive councillors. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}