Puad to KJ: ‘Don’t use proxies’

January 21, 2023

Puad to KJ: ‘Don’t use proxies’

Puad to KJ: 'Don't use proxies'

KUALA LUMPUR: Umno Supreme Council member Datuk Dr Puad Zarkashi has questioned former Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin for lauding two Umno members who filed a complaint with the Registry of Societies (RoS), over the party’s general assembly decision not to contest the top two party post.

“KJ praised the two (party) members for lodging a complaint with RoS as brave and sane. Were they brave or just being used?

“The top officials should be the ones filing the complaint, only then, we can describe it (the action) as bravery.

“Do not use (your) subordinates, especially former (ministerial) officers. Is that logical?” he said in a statement, today.

Puad was responding to Khairy’s Instagram story, in which the latter lauded the two Umno members for lodging the complaint.

“Well done guys. There are still some brave and sane (people) in Umno. I am (also) confident with RoS credibility to review the application put forth by the Rembau delegate in the general assembly properly,” he said in the story.

Yesterday, two Umno members filed a complaint with the RoS over the motion for the posts of party president and deputy president to remain unchallenged in the party election.

The motion was proposed by Rembau Umno delegate Mohd Shukri Shamsudin during the debate on the party president’s policy speech. It was seconded by Marang Umno chief Datuk Nik Dir Nik Wan Ku.

Terengganu Umno member Muhammad Aizat Fikri Mohd Nasir said the motion went against the party’s constitution.

Terengganu Umno chief Datuk Seri Ahmad Sai, however, had said more than 90 per cent of the more than 2,600 delegates at the assembly stood up in support of the motion.

Meanwhile, Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was reported as saying that Umno leaders who went against the motion might face disciplinary action.

He cited Article 8 of the party constitution, which states that the Umno General Assembly, which approved the motion, was the highest authority in the party.