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PETALING JAYA: Cabinet ministers and Mentris Besar expressed regret over Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's association with the Opposition and urged the former prime minister to cease his attacks on the Government.

In expressing their support for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, they questioned Dr Mahathir’s loyalty to Umno in the wake of his no-holds barred outburst in the media.

They said the former prime minister’s remarks were callous and could be used by the Opposition to weaken the Government and confuse the people.



They pleaded with Dr Mahathir to refrain from carrying out the open attacks on the Government for the good of Umno and the country and added that he was only tarnishing his own image by his actions.

In response, Dr Mahathir denied colluding with the Opposition and declared that he would not leave Umno as suggested by Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz.

Nazri has no right to make demand, says Mahathir

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz has no right to demand that a member leaves Umno because the party does not belong to him, says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Describing Nazri as a “hatchet man among henchmen,” the former prime minister and ex-Umno president told a press conference yesterday: “I don’t care at all for his opinion.

“Umno does not belong to Datuk Nazri. The party belongs to all Malays. Nazri has no right on his own to demand that this person or that person leaves the party. I was in Umno before he was even born.”

On Monday, Nazri, who is a minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, declared “open war” on Dr Mahathir, demanding that he quit the party because he had colluded with the Opposition and was constantly attacking the Government.

Dr Mahathir stressed that he had never worked with the Opposition, he would not leave Umno and, as far as he was concerned, “criticising the Government is not war.”

“You mean you can’t criticise the Prime Minister at all? The amount of criticism I faced (as prime minister) will fill several volumes,” he said.

He clarified that PAS representatives were present at the forum where he spoke, but he did not at any time share a platform with the Opposition.

He took note of the fact that newspapers had shown a picture of him smiling at members of the opposition party, adding that “I smiled at a lot of people but those pictures were not shown.”

Dr Mahathir believed this was all part of a process to “demonise” him and make Umno members hate him so that the party could expel him.

“They are building up the tempo. If they can build hatred towards me fast enough, they’ll do it soon enough. But if I’m still popular among the Umno rank and file, I don’t think they’ll do it (sack me),” he said.

Dr Mahathir said he had nothing to gain from the criticisms he made against the Government, and he had no ambition to return to politics, not even as a Member of Parliament.

The former premier said he was merely “sticking his neck out” because many people had approached him “to do something about the situation in the country,” as they had been “feeling the pinch.”

“I also see wrong things being done and it is my duty (to speak up). Lots of people are not angry with me. In fact they come and see me and tell me, ‘Go on, Tun. We can’t do it’,” he added.