BN has appeared to backtrack from its call for the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to order for a Parliament sitting as soon as possible.

This comes after MIC said the coalition partners never agreed in their recent meeting to make such an appeal.

At about 8.15pm last night, BN chairperson Ahmad Zahid Hamidi issued a strongly-worded media statement criticising de facto Law Minister Takiyuddin Hassan’s justification for postponing the Parliament sitting.

Bearing a BN letterhead and issued under the Umno president’s name, the statement accused the PAS minister of “challenging” the King's views...