Credit : Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's X
KUALA LUMPUR, November 11, 2026 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has offered his condolences after J. Samivel, an aide to Pakatan Harapan’s candidate for the Asahan state seat and the deputy branch chief of PKR in Alor Gajah, was killed in a road accident in Melaka at midday on Wednesday.
Writing in Malay on X at 3.30pm, Anwar said he had received sad news from Melaka. He identified Samivel as the representative, or “wakil calon”, of the Harapan candidate for the Asahan state constituency, or DUN Asahan, and as the deputy chief of the KEADILAN (PKR) Alor Gajah branch. Anwar said Samivel had long served and remained faithful to the struggle. “May the service and spirit he left behind continue to guide our steps in carrying on this struggle,” he wrote.
Anwar said his thoughts and prayers, and those of his wife, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, whom he referred to as Azizah, were now with the late man’s family and with comrades in the struggle. He hoped they would be given strength and fortitude in facing this bitter trial. He did not set out funeral arrangements, and he did not discuss the state of the Asahan campaign.
Samivel was not himself a candidate in the Melaka state election. He was an aide to P. Denesh, Pakatan Harapan’s PKR candidate for Asahan, according to reports by Bernama, as carried by Kosmo, as well as by RTM, Sinar Harian, Utusan Malaysia and the New Straits Times. Anwar referred to him as “Saudara Samivel” and did not name the candidate in his post. Several of those news reports also gave his name as J. Samivel.
The Fire and Rescue Department received a call at about 12.22pm, and a car was found to have collided with a fruit lorry on Jalan Pondok Batang (Dalam) in Jasin, the New Straits Times reported, citing the Jasin district police chief, Superintendent Lee Robert. Samivel was pronounced dead at the scene. Bernama, as reported by Kosmo, as well as RTM and Sinar Harian, said he was 62. The crash occurred in Jasin, while the PKR post Anwar mentioned is in Alor Gajah, another part of Melaka.
The accident took place in the final days of campaigning for Melaka’s 16th state election. Polling is on Saturday, November 14, 2026, three days after the crash. Early voting was held on November 10. Asahan, or N.10, is being contested by Denesh for Pakatan Harapan against the Barisan Nasional incumbent, Datuk Fairul Nizam Roslan, who won the seat in 2021.
Anwar attached a photograph from a public gathering to his post but did not identify the people in the image or give a time or place for it. Further details of the crash were reported separately by the police through the news organisations named above.
The loss of a campaign aide so close to polling day is a blow to the Harapan team in Asahan, though Anwar’s message was confined to tribute and condolence and did not discuss the election contest itself.
Source: https://x.com/anwaribrahim/status/2120418775577284901. Additional details of the accident and of Samivel’s role from Bernama as reported by Kosmo, and from RTM, Sinar Harian, Utusan Malaysia and the New Straits Times, November 11, 2026.
Credit : Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s X
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