IPOH – The Perak government will consider the opposition’s proposal to hold a meeting among the 59 assemblymen as the state assembly sitting cannot be convened during the emergency period.
Menteri Besar Datuk Saarani Mohamad said in the meeting, the state administration could brief all assemblymen on ongoing plans and completed projects, including their financial status, expenditures and revenue collection.
“However, this will just be a briefing. A debate session cannot be held in the assemblymen meeting and we can hold it at a hotel or a banquet hall.
“There is no need to have the speaker in the meeting as this will be wrongly interpreted by certain quarters as it may seem as if we are having an illegal state assembly sitting,” he said.
He said this after attending the Public Works Department’s vote-drawing session at the Perak Darul Ridzuan building here today, which was also attended by state Infrastructure, Energy, Water and Public Transport Committee chairman Datuk Zolkafly Harun.
Saarani said in the meeting, the assemblymen could give their feedback and views to improve the state government’s performance.
Yesterday, Amanah chairman Datuk Asmuni Awi suggested that such a meeting be convened without adopting the state assembly official rules to enable discussions on the people’s welfare to go on despite the state of emergency. – Bernama, March 15, 2021
