Zaid: Why am I not asked to stand?

PETALING JAYA: DAP’s Datuk Zaid Ibrahim is wondering why no one has asked him to contest in the general election.

“I like Dr Boo’s style,” the ex-minister tweeted yesterday, in reference to former Johor DAP chief Dr Boo Cheng Hau.

“He declined the so-called offer to contest in Labis. Wish I too could decline; except I received no offer!”

Appointed as a minister in March 2008, Zaid resigned from the Cabinet six months later following his criticism of the then Internal Security Act.

He was then MP for Kota Baru.

Zaid was suspended by Umno later that year and joined PKR in 2009.

However, Zaid had a fallout with the PKR leadership and formed Parti Kesejahteraan Insan Tanah Air in December 2010, from which he eventually resigned as president due to internal squabbling.

He joined DAP last year.