BN election machinery must repel PAS lies - Mustapa

With only one more day of campaigning left, the Barisan Nasional (BN) machinery is stepping up efforts to meet voters following PAS lies against the BN government.

BN by-election director Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said PAS leaders were actively defaming BN government over the petroleum royalty and that Kelantan had been marginalised in development.

"In house-to-house campaign for Pengkalan Kubor, they sow hatred of voters against the Barisan Nasional government," he told a media conference here today.

Mustapa who is also Kelantan BN chairman said even though the petroleum royalty issue was still with the court, PAS continued to incite hatred of voters against the BN government.

"Our stand on the royalty issue is clearly via the court and we should be open minded on the matter," he said.

He said the federal government has never marginalised Kelantan and the people could see for themselves the various development brought to this state.

The BN election machinery was advised to campaign prudently and be patient against provocation of the opponents in the final round of campaigning.

The by-election is a three-cornered fight between BN's Mat Razi Mat Ail, Wan Rosdi Wan Ibrahim of PAS and independent Izat Bukhari Ismail Bukhari. It was being held following the death of incumbent Datuk Noor Zahidi Omar of BN on Aug 20.