A police report has been lodged against a blog for allegedly inciting people to cause physical harm against ousted Perak menteri besar Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin.

The report was lodged by Titi Serong state assemblyperson Khalil Idham Lim at the Changkat Jering police station this afternoon.

perak bangkit blog website kill nizar article 260309 "The blog post is insulting and is inciting (people to cause Mohd Nizar harm). Mohd Nizar's safety is being threatened. We believe this is against the law," said Khalil.

Khalil was referring to the Perak Bangkit blog which posted an article titled "Kill Nizar!!!" which said that Mohd Nizar had broken his oath as a state assemblyperson.

"In his oath, he had said 'In the name of god, I Nizar Jamaluddin swear that I will be loyal to the sultan. Nizar broke Article 47 (1) of the state constitution by refusing to step down (as menteri besar) after being ordered by the sultan," read the article.

The article also included a picture of a woman in a miniskirt with the words "kill nizar" scribbled across her bare back.

Khalil said that the blog is well known in Perak and believed that the blog owner posted the article in view of Mohd Nizar's candidacy for the Bukit Gantang by-election.

Flag war in full swing

In another development, both Barisan Nasional candidate Ismail Saffian and Mohd Nizar have been making quiet rounds throughout the constituency with little notice to the press.

nizar jamaluddin ismail saffian bukit gantang by election More overt campaigning can be found on main roads throughout the constituency which has been given a 'facelift' with campaign materials, even though campaigning officially begins on March 29.

Party flags - with Barisan Nasional flags vastly outnumbering those from PAS - have been strung along the main road of Simpang, north of the constituency, all the way south towards Beruas and Pantai Remis.

However, numerous party flags and posters have been destroyed due to heavy rain in the evenings.

The warning by Election Commission chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof against illegal campaigning before nomination day appears unheeded as party workers were seen erecting new banners and flags this afternoon.

Campaign leaflets from both BN and Pakatan are also in heavy circulation. Most Pakatan materials are focusing on the controversial takeover of the Perak state government last month.

bukit gantang by election 260309 01 cartoon A full colour caricature leaflet portraying Mohd Nizar as a communist leader, is also making its rounds in the area. Mohd Nizar was depicted holding a DAP flag on the way to the palace.

The poster, which is not attributed to any party and has no information on the publisher, also depicts Perak speaker V Sivakumar, Perak DAP chair Ngeh Khoo Ham and Perak DAP secretary Nga Kor Ming as communists.

'Instant noodles' up for grabs

Several major roads have also been freshly paved while new street lamps have been erected in the town of Simpang, which is under the Changkat Jering constituency.

bukit gantang by election 260309 03 In Changkat Jering town, workers were seen putting on a new roof on a pedestrian bridge which is a stone's throw away from the service centre of Changkat Jering state assemblyperson Osman Jailu. The PKR logo has been dropped from its signboard.

Osman was among three Pakatan state reps who defected from the coalition and became "Barisan-friendly" independents in early February.

On March 14, incoming Umno president Najib Abdul Razak said that BN would not be dishing out 'instant noodle' projects during the Bukit Gantang by-election.

"Instant noodle development politics is when we see excavators going in during elections … in Bukit Gantang, we don't do this but development will still be brought.

"Instant noodle projects include paving roads, clean ups or other instant projects which crop up prior to an elections. This attitude has to change," Bernama quoted Najib as saying.