Umno Youth chief Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki said Bersatu Youth is welcomed to rejoin Pakatan Harapan and warned that the party will be punished for toying with the people.
"If Bersatu Youth is so intent on severing the cooperation with Umno and return to Pakatan Harapan's fold like someone who is still obsessed with one's ex-wife (orang gila talak), they are welcomed to do so.
"The people will be the best judge in evaluating and punishing those who so lightly toy with the people's mandate simply due to their greed and craving for power at a time when the people are struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic," he said in a statement today.
Asyraf (photo) was responding to a statement by Bersatu Youth which declared that it is against cooperation with Umno and wants to return to Harapan.
The majority decision was made after a Bersatu Youth exco meeting with party chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Bersatu is presently split between Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin's faction and Mahathir's faction.
The Harapan government collapsed in late February after Muhyiddin took Bersatu out of the coalition and joined forces with a group of PKR defectors led by former PKR deputy president Azmin Ali.
Together with the Opposition, they formed the new Perikatan Nasional (PN) government.
Mahathir had indicated he plans to wrest back control of the party in the next Bersatu election and withdraw the party from the PN government.
Asyraf reminded Bersatu Youth that the collapse of the Harapan government, which only lasted 21 months from the 2018 general election, was due to the coalition's own infighting.
"It was all linked to feuding top leadership who coveted the prime minister position that Mahathir abruptly resigned which led to the automatic dissolution of the Harapan government.
"Thankfully, Umno, PAS and BN component parties were big-hearted in setting aside their respective interests to support Muhyiddin as the prime minister so as to save the country which was in limbo for a week without a government, which impact the country's stability, economy and innocent people," he said. - Mkini
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