JOHOR BARU: He might have been absent from active politics for 14 years but Datuk Shahrir Samad was certainly not lost and forgotten as far as the people of Johor Baru were concerned.
As if to prove that they still remembered him and his brand of politics, voters in the Johor Baru parliamentary constituency gave their “comeback kid” a resounding win with a stunning majority of 46,792 votes – the highest recorded in the country this time round.
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