GE13: Pakatan Rakyat has run Selangor capably, says Khalid in campaign speech

The Star

Published: Saturday May 4, 2013 MYT 1:20:00 PM
Updated: Saturday May 4, 2013 MYT 1:48:19 PM

By LOH FOON FONG

Caretaker Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim.

SABAK BERNAM: Caretaker Mentri BesarTan Sri Khalid Ibrahim made a surprise visit to the furthest end of Selangor on the last leg of campaigning.

He told village folks that the Selangor Pakatan Rakyat-led state government has done well instead of gone bankrupt.

He said that since Pakatan Rakyat took over the state government in Selangor in 2008, it had invested well and Selangor was rated first among other states in having the most investments.

"We have generated more than RM50bil in investments and we have not gone bankrupt," he said on Friday late night in Bagan Terap.

Khalid said he needed to tell the people that the Opposition did not go bankrupt when they were given the chance to run the state for five years and would not go bankrupt if they take over the Putrajaya federal administration as claimed by the Barisan Nasional.

He also said that the Selangor state government had spent RM700mil on the people on the water given to those living in the state.

Khalid said on top of that, the state government also made savings of RM260mil.

At a ceramah earlier, Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Muhammad Taibdeclared to the people that he had actually joined PAS since some were still not sure whether he actually did.

At the ceramah attended by between 1,500 to 1,800 people, Pakatan members were seen approaching Muhammad Taib with their party flags for his autograph or take his picture.