Baljit made the suggestion at the Gerakan 45th National Delegates Conference, saying that DAP’s pitting Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud against party president Mah Siew Keong for the Teluk Intan seat had a strong effect.
“We have to strengthen ourselves. In seats that are sure 100% lost, why field a 70 year-old Chinese man. Why not field a woman who is young, sweet, energetic, sexy who is willing to give it her all,” he said, according to a report by The Sun.
“The thing is she might lose, she will lose, but it will create a ‘ripple effect’.”
“Let’s be honest about Teluk Intan. Yes, the president won, but look at what the opposition did. They put a young Malay girl there. I saw her as a young Malay girl, I didn’t see anything else,” he said.
Baljit called for the Youth wing to field more “young blood” in the coming general election, to create the “ripple effect”.
Gerakan currently has two parliamentary seats: Teluk Intan (Mah Siew Keong) and Simpang Renggam (Liang Teck Meng).
The party had named five potential candidates to be fielded in Selangor at the general election.
They are Selangor Gerakan chairman David Ang Chin Tat (Puchong parliamentary constituency); Vice-President A. Kohilan Pillay (Kota Alam Shah state assembly seat); Deputy Speaker Syed Abdul Razak Syed Long (Bukit Lanjan); Youth wing secretary Ben Liew Pok Boon (Teratai); Youth wing human rights and legal bureau chief Chai Ko Thing (Bukit Gasing).
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