20 of 21 Kedah BN assemblymen have audience with Regency Council

According to one of the Assemblymen present at the meeting, only Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir was absent at the meeting held at Block E of the building.

The audience is believed to have been held following the political crisis involving the position of Mukhriz as the Kedah Menteri Besar.

Meanwhile, media personnel were not allowed to enter Wisma Darul Aman and were only allowed to wait outside the perimeter fence of the Kedah state government complex.

Earlier, the vehicle carrying Kedah Council of Regency Member Tunku Tan Sri Puteri Intan Safinaz Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah arrived at Wisma Darul Aman at 2.40 pm, followed by another vehicle carrying another Member of the Council, Tan Sri Tunku Abdul Hamid Thani Almarhum Sultan Badlishah at 2.55 pm.

The chairman of the Council, Tan Sri Tunku Sallehuddin Almarhum Sultan Badlishah arrived at 3 pm.

The political crisis in Kedah arose following the loss of confidence of the Kedah UMNO Assemblymen and Members of Parliament (MPs) as well as the state UMNO senior leadership led by deputy chairman of the Kedah UMNO Liaison Body Datuk Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah in the leadership of Mukhriz as the Menteri Besar and Chairman of the Liaison Body.

It was reported that 19 of the 21 BN Assemblymen, comprising 17 UMNO Assemblymen and two from the MCA, had signed a statutory declaration on their loss of confidence in Mukhriz.

Only the Jitra Assemblyman, Datuk Aminuddin Omar did not do so.

Last Friday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was reported as having been granted an audience with Tunku Sallehuddin, who is also Tunku Temenggong Kedah, at Istana Darul Aman, Federal Hill in the federal capital to discuss a change in the Kedah Menteri Besar.

Also present at the meeting lasting almost one hour were Tunku Abdul Hamid Thani, who is also the Tunku Laksamana Kedah and Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz, Tunku Panglima Besar Kedah.