KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — There is not any reality to the declare by Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz that the revival of the party on the state degree is not in line with the theme set by the central management, in keeping with Selangor Umno chief Datuk Megat Zulkarnain Omardin.
In an interview with Utusan Malaysia revealed as we speak, Megat stated that there isn’t any method he would steer Selangor Umno or Barisan Nasional (BN) in a method that is opposite to the federal management contemplating he’s additionally the political secretary to the party president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi who can be deputy prime minister.
“I imagine Tengku Zafrul was referring to the choice to return the 20 positions of native authorities’s councillors and return 75 positions of village heads to the state authorities.
“When the choice was made, Tengku Zafrul was the one one not current.
“And once we made a presentation of the choice to deal with the state relations to the party president all 21 division heads who had been current reached a unanimous resolution. We did not go away it to Ahmad Zahid to make the choice,” Megat was quoted as saying.
Tengku Zafrul was the previous Selangor Umno treasurer.
Megat stated that Umno has been working onerous to revive the party’s energy proper right down to the grassroots degree.
“I’ve been in Umno for many years. I noticed when Umno grew to become the dominant party in Selangor, we received 54 seats out of 56.
“I additionally witnessed Umno’s defeat from 54 to twenty seats. I used to be additionally with Umno when the seats had been lowered from 20 to 12, then eight, 4 and at last two seats now after I’m the chief.
“We don’t have plenty of funds like earlier than and our place is not sturdy. With this deficiency, I took over Selangor Umno, but it surely did not weaken my spirit or that of my mates,” he was quoted as saying.
On Tengku Zafrul’s resignation from his party publish, Megat believed that the rationale might be that holding the funding commerce and business ministry portfolio made it onerous for the previous to commit as he wanted to observe the prime minister abroad typically.
“As lengthy as I can keep in mind, he was solely in a position to attend the assembly as soon as, after that he was unable to attend and the assembly was represented by the division deputy chief.
“I believe it’s settled. We settle for his resignation as Selangor Umno treasurer,” he was quoted as saying.
