Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng called for the people in the Klang Valley to participate in an upcoming fun run on July 2 to counter a proposal by an Umno minister to turn the state into a federal territory.

In a press conference held at a shopping centre in Selangor today, Lim said he will lead the six-kilometre run to be held at the Central Park in Bandar Utama.

Soon after Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor proposed to make Penang a federal territory, the state government initiated the run event to galvanise support to preserve the original status of Penang...