MP SPEAKS | Shahidan, make KL a world-class city

MP SPEAKS | I wish to congratulate my old friend from the opponent party, Arau MP Shahidan Kassim, on his appointment as federal territories minister.

He is a senior and experienced politician who has held the post of Perlis menteri besar and was the former minister in the Prime Minister's Department.

When Shahidan was a backbencher, he was quite boisterous and sparred incessantly with opposition MPs in the Dewan Rakyat. He loved to debate on practically all parliamentary bills, to the point of repeating his arguments again and again just to taunt opposition MPs.

He also constantly interrupted opposition MPs when they delivered their speeches in Parliament.

Shahidan used to disturb me whenever I presented issues and...