Lembah Pantai Umno chief Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin has declined MP Nurul Izzah Anwar’s debate offer to enable the constituents to decide who has done more to help them.

"I don't think we need to debate. The general election is near. Let us decide then. Why should we debate?

"The rakyat will evaluate what she has done," he said at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today.

Other than that, Raja Nong Chik added, as a BN cabinet member he was not given to debating. "We cabinet members are not encouraged to debate," he said.

NONE He also said that if Nurul Izzah really had done good for her constituency, she need not worry.

"Just say what she had done, usually she just rides on my accomplishments," Raja Nong added.

Yesterday, Nurul Izzah had thrown down the gauntlet to the federal territories and urban well-being minister to debate his allegations that she spends more time criticising him than serving the people of Lembah Pantai.

Both are going head-to-head as Nurul Izzah is set to defend her seat, with Raja Nong Chik going all out to wrest back the former BN seat.

The first-term senator criticised Nurul Izzah recently, saying she only "knew how to criticise" and challenged her to solve the voters' livelihood problems

For example, he added, he had managed to find people to repaint apartments in the locality.

Raja Nong Chik was also reported to have said that he was not worried in facing Nurul Izzah or PKR de-facto leader Anwar Ibrahim.