COMMENT Leaving the safe seat of Bukit Bendera in Penang for which he had been member of parliament since 2008, Liew Chin Tong, who grew up playing on the streets of Subang Jaya, decided to run this year for the parliamentary seat of Kluang, Johor.

Kluang is certainly not a safe seat for a DAP leader. The constituency is a stronghold of the MCA, and Dr Hou Kok Chung is defending it against Liew.

An early proponent for a DAP thrust into Johor, Liew, who is acknowledged a key strategist in the party, has had time to think about how the DAP was to win the targeted 10 parliamentary seats in Johor, and how he was to run his own campaign...