ANALYSIS As the curtain came down on this year's Umno general assembly, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak sounded like a frustrated man.

In his winding-up speech, the Umno president noted that the gathering this round had become distracted by the Sedition Act.

This was thanks to his deputy, Muhyiddin Yassin, who at the launch of the Umno wings' assemblies openly implored his boss to abandon any plans to abolish the colonial era law.