A student activist lodged a police report today claiming he was assaulted in Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's constituency of Pekan, while on a campaign for the coming general election.

NONE Ekhsan Bukharee Badarul Hisham, 21, said he is part of a group that intends to put up a candidate against the premier.

Ekhsan Bukharee, a graduate from Unisel, said the attack took place at 1pm today, when he was in a car with two others, heading for Kampung Datuk Keramat, Ganchong, to deliver letters on the 13th general election from the university students to constituents there.

"Suddenly, a silver Proton Gen 2 with three people inside blocked our path, and a motorcycle also stopped by the side of our car.

"The person on the motorcycle asked for our identity cards. They then asked us to get out of the kampung.

"One of the men pulled me out of the car and punched and slapped me on my head," Ekhsan Bukharee says in his police report.

He also said his shirt was partly torn and he suffered injuries to his right hand as a result of a fall during the attack.

Shameful incident

Later today, Gerakan Mahasiswa PRU13 (GMP) chairperson Syis Abdul Kadir described the incident as a shame.

"I believe the reason behind this attack is because the students said they would contest in Pekan against Najib.

"This represents Umno/BN's desperate politics, resulting in them possibly using gangsters to stop university students.

"Politics should be fought with arguments or debates - not by trading punches.

"The PM's constituency should have been the safest place to uphold democracy and campaigns. However, it's the opposite, where the students are greeted by gangsters," Syis said in a statement.

He said the Najib administration has announced that university students can take part in politics but today, they were attacked by thugs.

Syis called for maturity in the politics and added that the university students also challenged Najib to a debate on topics that the students would raise.