‘Delay in talks over equal MP funds is revenge politics’


Photo: RAJA FAISAL HISHAN/The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: An MP has claimed that the slow progress in talks between the government and the parliamentary opposition for equal development funds for all lawmakers is an act of “revenge politics”.

Muar MP Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman (pic) said the failure to conclude an agreement lay with the government as the opposition and the administration have been in negotiations “for months”.

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