The battlelines in the leadership fight for control of Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) have been finally drawn after another prospective presidential candidate Daniel Tajem formally picked treasurer-general Joseph Salang Gandum last night as his running-mate for the deputy present's post.

Tajem, 62, the party's deputy president since 1983 when the party was formed and a former Sarawak deputy chief minister and a former Malaysian envoy to New Zealand, formally invited Salang, who is also the member of parliament for Julau, to be his running-mate for the deputy president's post, at a dinner in Kota Samarahan at the residence of a PBDS supreme council member Edward Sandah.