Bersatu information chief Wan Saiful Wan Jan urged the prime minister to remove Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli from his post for the latter's "arrogance and incompetence".
According to him, the government should focus on assisting the people regardless of their political leaning and not "silence" anyone.
"Arrogant and incompetent. When Muhyiddin Yassin and Perikatan Nasional (PN) were in power, we looked after the welfare of all rakyat and had no intention of 'silencing' Pakatan Harapan.
"Regardless of PN or Harapan, we helped everyone. That's the difference between fair PN and the arrogant, incompetent Harapan-BN," Wan Saiful (above, right) wrote on Facebook today.
The Tasek Gelugor MP was responding to a tweet by Pandan MP Rafizi earlier this week that he would soon "silence" PN lawmakers with a detailed explanation of the price control mechanism after his recent remark became an issue.
Stop revenge politics
He further lambasted the Harapan-BN government for allegedly practising "revenge politics" against their critics.
"By right, the government should now be looking at supply-side reform so that we can have long-term solutions on prices of items.
"Policies concerning incentives, taxes, subsidies and export regulations are some of the ways the government can use to help the rakyat," he said.
Wan Saiful then urged Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to replace Rafizi with Titiwangsa MP Johari Abdul Ghani, to helm the Economy Ministry.
"Johari has more prestige and he's not childish to 'silence' anyone over revenge politics."
Rafizi recently refuted claims that he suggested people cease buying chicken to help stop inflation-related price increases, with his remark: "Normally, if the price of chicken is too expensive, don't buy it."
The PKR deputy president clarified that he was instead encouraging a collective effort by the public and government to battle inflation. - Mkini
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