Why ATTACK me? - Mukhriz

YAN - Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Muhriz Mahathir is bemused at the personal attacks launched against him by the national Pas leaders who came here to campaign for the Sungai Limau by-election.

Saying that their move was unjustified since he was not the candidate, Mukhriz instead queried their sincerity in campaigning for the party or for themselves, in wake of the party polls next month.

Mukhriz said the Pas leaders should instead focus on the party's vision for Sungai Limau constituents rather than blurring the issue with attacks on him.

"I could not help but wonder if these Pas leaders came to Sungai Limau to campaign for the party or for themselves?

"In our side, we do not face such conflict as the Umno polls had ended and we are now totally focused on ensuring BN's victory in Sungai Limau as a united force," he said in a Press conference at the BN operation centre at Sungai Lintang here today.

Mukhriz also questioned the sincerity of Pas vice-president Datuk Mahfuz Omar and the party's candidate for Sungai Limau by-election, in visiting minister in the Prime Minister's Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom's father in Kampung Sedaka recently.

He raised doubts on their sincerity when pictures of them visiting on Baharom Ramli, 71, who suffered from a stroke attack three years ago, were immediately uploaded on the social media and reported in Pas party organ, Harakahdaily.

Mukhriz argued that BN could also do the same when he accompanied BN candidate Dr Ahmad Sohaimi Lazim to pay a courtesy visit on the widow of Tan Sri Azizan Abdul Razak, Puan Sri Faekah Sheikh Hamzah at her home in Alor Star on Monday.

"We could have uploaded pictures of our visit on social media and arranged for media coverage, but we did not turn it into a campaign tool," he said.

On another matter, Mukhriz explained that the BN state government still continued some of the programmes introduced by the previous Pas administration which were deemed as beneficial for the people in Kedah.

Citing an example, he said the Kafalah one-off RM500 burial aide for poor families, introduced by the Pas administration was not abolished, but it was renamed after his administration improved loopholes in the scheme.

He added that the state government maintained a religious class at the Menteri Besar official residence in Seri Mentaloon every Saturday, a legacy left by the late Azizan.

NST