Contentious Baram parliamentary constituency is a hot spot and police are not taking any chances.
Marudi police chief DSP Taming Emperang said the a 200-strong team had been deployed by helicopter, 4WD vehicles and speed boats.
The constituency, where the contentious Baram dam is being constructed, is a known hot spot.
The Baram parliamentary constituency has 29,498 registered voters. Both Telang Usan and Marudi are state seats within the constituency.
BN has held this vast constituency since 1995 but faces an uphill battle this time around.
Since last September, the local native communities have been erecting blockacades and protesting against the state government for allocating native customary rights (NCR) land to politically influential companies for logging, oil palm palntation and dam construction.
There is also internal sabotage. Three-term Baram incumbent Jacob Sagan was dropped and replaced by Anyi Ngau, who is seen as a “plant” of caretaker Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s PBB party.
In the ongoing parliamentary polls, Baram is seeing a tough three-cornered fight among Ngau, PKR’s Roland Engan and Independent Patrick Sibat.
Meanwhile, Sibu and Lanang constituencies saw early voter turnouts.
Both seats are considered hot seats with BN-Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) trying to make a comeback in Sibu and retaining its hold on Lanang.
In the 2010 by-election, SUPP lost its 24-year grip on Sibu by 398 votes.
In Sibu, BN-SUPP’s Vincent Lau is aiming to wrest the seat from DAP’s Oscar Ling, while in Lanang BN incumbent Tiong Thai King will face off with opposition’s Alice Lau.
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