Selangor Barisan Nasional (BN) has refuted the claim that it is attempting to engineer the collapse of the state government through devious means.

NONE Opposition Leader Dr Mohd Khir Toyo said recent events that have plagued the Pakatan Rakyat in the state are the outcome of an “internal tussle”.

He was responding to an allegation by the state Backbenchers Club yesterday that there is a plot to topple the Pakatan government by September, in particular by the state Umno led by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

“They cannot blame BN because all that has happened has evolved from an internal tussle in Pakatan Rakyat... their own leaders are not in favour of their executive councillors,” he said when contacted today.

Contrary to Pakatan’s assertions, he said, the BN assemblypersons have been “helping the state government by being critical”.

khalid ibrahim low siew moi othman omar new pkns selangor chief khalid ibrahim pc 231208 02 “But the menteri besar (Khalid Ibrahim) cannot bear criticism... if six months into their administration they had claimed such things, (we can understand it). But they have been running the state for more a year now,” he said.

Among the incidents involving Selangor Pakatan representatives were the arrest of Teresa Kok under the Internal Security Act last year, and the death of DAP political aide Teoh Beng Hock on July 16.

Teoh had been grilled into the wee hours of the morning in relation to an anti-corruption investigation into alleged mismanagement of state funds by 16 Pakatan representatives.

'Don't take easy way out'

Mohd Khir warned his counterparts not to take “the easy way out”, but to work with the authorities to resolve the problems.

“We don't want (anything like the) Perak (power-grab) as it (causes) too much trouble. But we (will call for) fresh elections as these things are not good for the public,” said Mohd Khir.

NONE He advised Pakatan representatives to give their full corporation to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

“I too was investigated by the MACC. I was with them for about eight hours, but I was cooperative,” he said.

“But they (Pakatan) have engaged in this new culture of calling the media and trying to prosecute MACC officers in public, when they should be following procedures.”