{"id":21765,"date":"2018-04-29T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21765"},"modified":"2018-04-30T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T09:01:35","slug":"kho-teck-wan-doing-her-best-to-win-bandar-kuching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21765","title":{"rendered":"Kho Teck Wan: doing her best to win Bandar Kuching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winning Bandar Kuching is no walk in the park for Barisan Nasional (BN) but its candidate Kho Teck Wan is willing to give her all to wrest the seat back from DAP.<\/p>\n<p>With the parliamentary seat being held by the opposition party for the last 15 years, the SUPP Women chief called on voters to give BN a chance this 14th general election (GE14).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not fight in today\u2019s modern society but let\u2019s all fight together for the betterment of our people and also for Kuching city. I hope Kuching people will not be left out in \u2018Team Abang Jo\u2019 (Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg) when we go fight for Sarawak\u2019s rights. We should be represented as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people of Mukah and Baram can be represented, then Bandar Kuching people should be represented as well. We should work as a team,\u201d she told reporters when met after filing her nomination papers to contest in Bandar Kuching at Dewan Masyarakat MBKS here yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Kho marched towards the gates of the nomination centre with hundreds of supporters chanting \u2018Hidup BN\u2019 (Long Live BN).<\/p>\n<p>Among those who came to show their support were Muara Tuang assemblyman Dato Idris Buang, political secretary to the Chief Minister Tan Kai and SUPP Kuching branch chairperson Datuk Lily Yong.<\/p>\n<p>She will be facing off with DAP\u2019s Dr Kelvin Yii Lee Wuen who has been fielded by the opposition party after its incumbent decided to stand in Stampin.<\/p>\n<p>Much like her opponent, this is Kho\u2019s first foray into politics.<\/p>\n<p>However, she said she will most probably be more relaxed compared to Dr Yii because he and his party will be fighting hard to defend the seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will take it very easy. So long as my heart is with the people, I believe we can do no wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just have to give my team the spirit and we will work and fight till the end. If we can reduce the majority, we will reduce and if we can win, let\u2019s do it and win,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old also shared that growing up, she has been exposed to the world of politics as her mother, Penghulu Tan Njun In, had always been involved in SUPP having served as the party\u2019s executive committee member as well as Pending branch Women chief.<br \/>\n\u201cI am the second generation of SUPP members and my parents and their generation have long been in the party, fighting for Sarawakian rights,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31381335_226844088083480_1426892993062764544_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21761\" alt=\"31381335_226844088083480_1426892993062764544_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31381335_226844088083480_1426892993062764544_n-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31381335_226844088083480_1426892993062764544_n-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31381335_226844088083480_1426892993062764544_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31454088_226844201416802_5960082303697813504_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21762\" alt=\"31454088_226844201416802_5960082303697813504_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31454088_226844201416802_5960082303697813504_n-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31454088_226844201416802_5960082303697813504_n-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31454088_226844201416802_5960082303697813504_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31460796_226844438083445_1544772798612766720_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21763\" alt=\"31460796_226844438083445_1544772798612766720_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31460796_226844438083445_1544772798612766720_n-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31460796_226844438083445_1544772798612766720_n-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31460796_226844438083445_1544772798612766720_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winning Bandar Kuching is no walk in the park for Barisan Nasional (BN) but its candidate Kho Teck Wan is willing to give her all to wrest the seat back from DAP. With the parliamentary seat being held by the opposition party for the last 15 years, the SUPP Women chief called on voters to give BN a chance this 14th general election (GE14). \u201cLet\u2019s not fight in today\u2019s modern society but let\u2019s all fight together for the betterment of our people and also for Kuching city. I hope Kuching<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21765\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21779,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21765\/revisions\/21779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}