BN has asked Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng how his administration could finance its huge increase in its operational expenses, and whether this is from the sale of public land.

BN's 'strategic communications team' claimed Penang's expenditure was 500 percent higher in 2017 than in 2008, when DAP first took over the state government.

In contrast, the federal government's spending had increased 35.3 percent over the same period, said the group in a statement