Former Batu Pahat MP Puad Zarkashi said there must be a reason why the rural and regional development ministry secretary-general was willing to go against the minister, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.PETALING JAYA: A former MP has urged rural and regional development ministry secretary-general Suriani Ahmad to explain minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s claim that projects in Sabah and Sarawak were shelved on her orders.
Former Batu Pahat MP Puad Zarkashi asked whether the ministry's most senior civil servant had greater authority than Zahid, who is both rural and regional development minister and deputy prime minister.
"It is strange that the deputy prime minister is quarrelling with the secretary-general to the point of making the revelation publicly in Parliament.
