Penang Gerakan Youth's plan to erect banners to criticise the state’s efforts to ease affordable housing rules has come under fire, as the state government views the act as “defamatory”.

Penang executive councillor on housing Jagdeep Singh Deo castigated the wing’s leader Jason Loo, for his “unsubstantiated” account, where he alleged that two developers were receiving “double special privileges” at the expense of house buyers, especially the middle-income earners.

When contacted, Jagdeep turned the tables on Loo, asking the latter to pressure Putrajaya instead on its promised 9,999 PR1MA housing project in Penang, which Prime Minister and BN president Najib Abdul Razak announced in Rifle Range before the 2013 national polls.