Kedah govt urged to list election promises that it has fulfilled

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ALOR SETAR: Kedah Umno Liaison Committee chairman Datuk Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah said yesterday it was unnecessary for the PAS-led government of Kedah to pretend that it had implemented 80 per cent of the party’s general election promises.

If it had really fulfilled the promises, then it should just list them instead of giving the excuse that it would reveal the matter at the sitting of the Kedah Legislative Assembly on April 4, he said.

“Reveal now if it is true. I find that the state government is trying to manipulate the manifesto issue because it knows it cannot implement the promises,” he said in a statement.

Ahmad Bashah, who is the state assemblyman for Bakar Bata, said that at an assembly sitting last year, he had questioned a statement by a state executive councillor in a newspaper that PAS had implemented 80 per cent of its election manifesto promises but the query went unanswered.

“In a written reply, the state government only said that the answer will be given later, and I have been waiting for the answer since,” he said.

Ahmad Bashah said that if the state government had actually implemented the promises, why would Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Razak get worked up when reporters questioned him about the Kedah PAS manifesto.

“The people ask me what the state government has done because they do not see any change.

What they have done is to organise a carnival from March 10 to 14 to celebrate three years of Pakatan rule, which I understand involved much cost but had no benefit for the people,” he said. — Bernama