PAS leader criticises government's move to float diesel prices


PETALING JAYA: The government's diesel subsidy rationalisation is an attempt to mask its inability to plug leakages that have cost government coffers RM4.5mil daily, says a top PAS leader.

PAS deputy president Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said instead of removing the diesel subsidy at petrol stations and allowing the price to rise drastically, the government should have looked at ways to stem the leakage.

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