KPAU2016 makes resolutions more grassroots-centred for UMNO General Assembly

The convention chairman, Senator Datuk Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki said the 691 resolutions from the Economic, Education, Religious and Political clusters discussed at various levels prior to this would be fine-tuned at discussions with the relevant ministers, academics and grassroots groups before being brought to the General Assembly.

"These are views that we try to highlight so that UMNO could feel the conscience and pulse of the people. Today, we've gathered all the resolutions and whatever discussed and will be discussed by all the clusters ... we will obtain more input," he said when tabling the KPAU 2015 Resolutions Report, here, Sunday.

The resolutions discussed at the convention were received from the UMNO divisional and branch-level meetings held prior to this.

Asyraf Wajdi also told the 1,000-odd attendees on how far the resolutions proposed at this convention and UMNO General Assembly 2015, had been taken up as government policies.

He said these included the RM10 billion allocation for cooking gas and people's electricity bill subsidies, as well as subsidies and special funds for special groups like padi farmers, smallholders and fishermen.

Asyraf Wajdi, who is also Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, said the government was focusing more on the low-income (B40) group by implementing initiatives such as increasing home ownership and organising special programmes to increase the income of people in this group.

He said the government, through the resolutions, had increased the number of high-quality schools, narrowed the rural-urban gap and increased pre-school enrolment.

He added that the government had also agreed to Marang MP and PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang tabling the Private Member's Bill to amend Act 355 or Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 and to implement the Malaysia Syariah Index under the Islamic Development Department (Jakim).