HADI TICKS OFF AZMIN
THE Pas president has cautioned the Selangor menteri besar not to mix politics with state administration. This follows claims that the state government will freeze this year’s RM800,000 allocation for Pas reps.
PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang has ticked off Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Azmin Ali, telling him that he should not mix politics with the administration of Selangor.
Hadi said the Selangor government must differentiate between political parties and the administration of a state.
“After the elections, the party that wins can form a government. But, it is a bad approach to have political sentiments in administering (a state). After the elections, we must assume responsibility for all people, whether or not they supported us.
“This is the proper approach... no discrimination nor bias,” he said after opening the Selangor Pas Fastaqim 2.4 and launching the Selangor Pas 14th General Election machinery.
Hadi had been asked to comment on reports that Pas elected representatives in Selangor had not been given their allocations.
Recently, Selangor Pas commissioner Sallehan Mukhyi was reported as saying that the state government had instituted a freeze on a total allocation of RM800,000 for the party’s assemblymen.
He had said the assemblymen would take the matter up with Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah as a last resort, should Azmin’s administration fail to address the issue.
Sallehen had claimed that he received information about the freeze from an officer at the Selangor government’s Economic Planning Unit.
However, Azmin later denied that there was such a freeze, saying that a technical problem had caused a delay in the disbursement of the allocation.
He had also said the funds would be expedited so that all 56 assemblymen would receive them as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Selangor Islamic Affairs, Malay Customs and Heritage, Rural and Traditional Village Development Committee chairman Datuk Dr Ahmad Yunus Hairi, who is from Pas, said any action to be taken would take place next month.
He said he and the other Pas assemblymen had yet to receive any information on the matter, nor letters from the state government.
“Usually the allocation will be given in January. We will wait and see what happens at the end of the month (before taking any action).”