Rumours of a Pakatan Harapan-BN pact are rife amidst a chorus of Umno leaders calling for their president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to resign but his uncharacteristic silence encourages more leaders to weigh in with polarised views.

Umno supreme council member Armand Azha Abu Hanifah is of the view that it was time that BN took its place in Parliament as the opposition playing the role of check and balance to the government.

Owing to the present uncertainty as to which coalition of parties can form the government as none were able to win a majority of seats at the 15th general election, many have started to...