Opposition blasted over personal attacks via Internet

Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Office (Islamic Affairs) Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman yesterday lambasted the opposition for being ‘bankrupt of issues’ by making personal attacks through the Internet.
He said the opposition, especially their bloggers, was using personal attacks to gain political support.
“Politics should be about generating growth and development, and not about making personal attacks against your opponent,” he commented to reporters after a prize presentation ceremony at SK Agama Datuk Haji Abdul Kadir Hassan yesterday.
Daud, who is also vice-president of  Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), said a lot of the postings made by the opposition against BN were false and slanderous.
“As far as BN is concerned, we do not need to look for personal issues to criticise the opposition. We get support from the people by implementing development projects such as improvement of infrastructure which can benefit the people,” he said.
Daud, who is Tupong assemblyman, was asked to comment on the emergence of many pro-opposition blogs which featured postings claiming to spill the beans on the personal lives of BN politicians.
The timing of such postings came close to the state election which is expected to be called anytime by July.
On another matter, Daud said the state government would build two more religious primary schools or SK Agama to accommodate the rising number of students.
He said these new schools would be built under the 10th Malaysia Plan (10MP).
“We are receiving 800 applications for SK Agama schools every year, but we can only accept 200 pupils. To overcome this, we want to build two more SK Agama schools in Petra Jaya, Kuching and Mukah,” he said.
Presently the state has eight SK Agama schools namely SK Agama Datuk Haji Abdul Kadir Hassan, SK Agama Ibnu Khaldun Samarahan, SK Agama Sri Aman, SK Agama Sarikei, SK Agama Sibu, SK Agama Bintulu, SK Agama Miri and SK Agama Lawas.
Daud also presented a grant of RM336,356 to SK Agama Datuk Haji Abdul Kadir Hassan for the maintenance of the 25-year-old school.