'No Team A or B in Penang BN'
Penang BN leaders have refuted the claim that the state coalition is split into Team A and B, or that this is evident when its leaders respond to issues like the proposal toward Penang’s free port status.
Penang BN leaders have refuted the claim that the state coalition is split into Team A and B, or that this is evident when its leaders respond to issues like the proposal toward Penang’s free port status.
State Gerakan chief Teng Hock Nan
(left)
denied he has problems working with state BN head Teng Chang Yeow.
"If you talk about factions, what about the DAP which comprises different camps (under its) leaders?" Hock Nan countered after chairing a meeting at the state BN headquarters in Penang yesterday.
"DAP secretary-general (and Penang Chief Minister) Lim Guan Eng and deputy (chief minister II) P Ramasamy are on one side, while the party's chief Karpal Singh is on another side. We, in BN, always work in one team. How can you say that we have different camps?"
He was responding to remarks by state DAP chief Chow Kon Yeow that Penang BN leaders have issued contradictory statements on the Penang free port proposal.
When it was pointed out that Teluk Bahang Umno assemblyperson Dr Hilmi Yahya and Chang Yeow had differed in their comments about the free port proposal, Hock Nan clarified that Hilmi’s suggestion of a customs, inspection and quarantine section is part of the free port plan.
BN information chief M Loga Bala
(right)
said the proposal for the free port is yet to be finalised and, therefore, there is no conflict in the ideas raised by the two Tengs.
Loga Bala denied that Chang Yeow did not communicate his policy proposals or brief the BN leaders adequately.
Chang Yeow, he said, had only recently taken over the reins of the BN state leadership, but the coalition leaders are aware of his plans.
"The Team A and B allegation has been spun by the (DAP). There is no such thing. We are actually working (as one) team," he said.
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