BN secretary-general Tengku Adnan Mansor cannot figure out why the ruling coalition cannot wrest the Bandar Tun Razak constituency from the opposition, despite its many efforts to assist residents there.

"I don't know how BN can lose Bandar Tun Razak twice. Bandar Tun Razak is a reflection of Malaysia - it has about equal number of Malays, Chinese and Indians constituents, although now there are slightly more Malays. I just don't understand why," he lamented during a carnival in the Kuala Lumpur constituency today.

The federal territories minister said the BN government has fulfilled the wishes of the parliamentary constituencies' voters and yet are unable to convince them to vote BN.

"What are the government's faults? You want houses, we give houses; you want roads, we give roads; you want a school, we give you a school; and we even give a free bus to send children to school and we ask for nothing in return because we know how difficult life is now.

"We even help the Kuala Lumpur City Hall by more than RM13 million (so it can assist residents here). So I don't know what else we to do," he said.