So, I wrote about the DAP ceramah in SS2 held on Monday night. Apparently, little did I realize, the BN also had a ceramah just about 50m away.

The Sun has the report which I will post it here, and highlighting main points in bold. Highlights of BN ceramah will be in blue while DAP in red.

Intense ‘fight’ for PJ Utara votes

PETALING JAYA (Feb 26, 2008): The fight for Petaling Jaya Utara votes has been unrelenting since nomination, with incumbent Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun pitting her “service record” against the call by DAP’s Tony Pua to put a stronger voice in Parliament.

Her supporters even played a video clip of her recuperating from her car accident last December and rearing to get back to action.

Chew’s plea to her voters was clear in a ceramah in SS2 last night - pasar malam night for the folk there: “I’m on my handphone 24 hours. You can get me anytime.”

Chew, who is seeking re-election for the third time, said this has been her practice since she was elected as MP.

“Once someone called and asked ‘who is there?’, I asked him back ‘to whom do you want to speak to?’” The caller said: “I am looking for YB Chew Mei Fun, are you her PA (personal assistant)? When I told him that I am YB Chew, he would not believe it,” she said to a crowd of about 50 people on a temporary rostrum in a hawker centre.

She said voting for someone who work for the people is more practical than voting for the Opposition which only shouts without doing work.

“We risk our lives by going into disaster areas to help people. What did DAP do? People in the disaster areas have never received even a biscuit from them,” she said in her speech in Mandarin.

At one juncture, when Chew touched on MCA’s contribution to the development of Chinese schools, an unidentified man shouted: “If you are Chinese, you go back to sleep!”

Chew coolly countered: “This is their (DAP’s) attitude, they can say whatever they want but we are not allowed to say things we want.”

The man then shot back at her: “I am an MCA member!”

Chew said in disbelief: “You can say whoever you are.”

Earlier, Chew’s campaign team also played a video clip about the road crash she was involved in last December.

“You could see how she struggled to recover so that she can continue serving the people. Have you seen any MP who is so down to earth, who will go on to the ground to see drains and walk at pasar (market) to understand the people more,” exclaimed her campaign member.

Pua’s ceramah, just 50m from Chew’s, drew about 200 people. His plea was contrasting.

“If you vote me in, judge me not whether I can service your drain and have more tarred roads, but whether I defend the right of Malaysians. If I don’t, please kick me out,” he said to cheers from the ground.

The heat of the ceramah reached its peak when DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang arrived about 11pm.

Kit Siang, in his trademark fiery manner, urged the voters to support DAP’s candidates for a fair and transparent government.

At the sidelines of the two ceramah, Women’s Candidacy Initiatives (WCI)’s “Mak Bedah” moved among the audience to “shop” for real candidates.

Women’s Aid Organisation president Meera Samanther said Pua agreed to endorse their appeal for support of WCI’s causes while Chew requested time for her to consider.

Meera took offence with Petaling Jaya Selatan parliamentary seat incumbent MP Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chai for ignoring their request to speak to him.

“This is the second time he asked us to contact him. We are here in front of him, why doesn’t he just talk with us? How are we going to assess your performance if we don’t have the access?” she asked.

Siang Chai was earlier giving a speech at Chew’s ceramah.