Umno Youth exco Armand Azha Abu Hanifah has criticised his party's bashing of former finance minister Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah.

He warned that such actions may backfire on the party.

"I think the way Husni was attacked is not nice, and not good.

"Husni is still an Umno leader and a BN MP. It is not appropriate for Umno to attack Ahmad Husni like this," he was quoted as saying by Astro Awani.

Instead, Armand said it was better to focus on strengthening Umno and spreading the message of the party.

Armand was responding to Ahmad Husni's speech in Parliament where the latter claimed he was attacked after resigning as finance minister II.

"My KPI (key performance indicator) is the best among the ministers - always above 100 percent.

"(As soon as) I quit - you see on the social media - two days after I quit, they attacked me for no reason.

"I know who the 'A', 'B' and 'C' who attacked me are. Why play this game?

"Let us love the rakyat. We work for the rakyat," Tambun MP Ahmad Husni said when debating the Budget 2017 speech in Parliament.

In his speech, Husni highlighted a laundry list of issues that would expose Putrajaya to multi-billion ringgit losses due to the 1MDB issue.

Following this, Umno information chief Annuar Musa dismissed Husni's speech as "nothing new" and "loaded with assumptions".

Finally speaks out

Husni had initially been coy about the reason for leaving the government in June.

However in a Sinar Harian interview three months later, he revealed the 1MDB scandal had put him under heavy stress.

He said even though he did not cause the scandal, he had been tasked to resolve it.

Husni's speech in Parliament on Monday is the first time he has publicly spoken out against 1MDB.