Majlis makan malam di Sibu semalam dihadhiri lebih dari tiga ribu orang. Selain menerima penyertaan ADUN Kawasan Ngemah; Gabriel Adit, saya turut mengalu-alukan kemasukan Beginda Minda beserta 12 ribu yang lainnya ke dalam parti.

Jamuan sebegini mungkin saja biasa di kalangan masyarakat Cina saperti mana ketika majlis-majlis ceramah di Semenanjung. Tetapi kehadhiran teman-teman Iban, Dayak, Urang Ulu, Bidayuh, Penan dan Melanau malam tadi mampu dinukilkan sebagai permulaan gerakan rakyat pendalaman. Turut sama hadhir ialah wakil kepimpinan PKR Pusat iaitu saudara Tian Chua dan Dato’ Salehuddin Hashim.

Kehadhiran khalayak dalam majlis semalam jelas menunjukkan bahawa rakyat Sarawak juga tidak mahu tertinggal dari menyertai arus perubahan. Ini merupakan petanda baik kerana mesej yang ingin kita bawa jelas melewati sempadan etnik dan kebudayaan. Kerjasama yang lebih akrab di antara PKR dan DAP Sarawak wajar disegerakan. Hayat BN di Sarawak, kian hari sudah sampai ke penghujungnya. Ngap Sayot!

ANWAR IBRAHIM

Malaysiakini | Nov 15, 2008

About 12,000 people in Sarawak, including 6,000 supporters of Ngemah state rep Gabriel Adit, have applied to join PKR.

Their application forms were submitted to PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim at a huge dinner gathering in Sibu tonight which saw more than 4,000 people in attendance.

Also signing up with the opposition party is controversial former PRS Balleh division publicity chief, Beginda Minda.

He was forced to leave the state BN component party following his call on the chief minister and his deputy to step down.

Adit, 58, claimed that he had submitted the application forms for PKR membership from 6,000 of his supporters tonight.

The other 6,000 new applications were believed to be from former PRS members and non-party members.

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