BUKIT GELUGOR When MCA decided not to contest and with the nation's focus on DAP candidate Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud for the Teluk Intan by-election, the battle for Bukit Gelugor was reduced to a boring affair.

That was until Abu Backer Sidek threw himself in front of the Mercedes-Benz ferrying Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.