SELANGOR Menteri Besar Azmin Ali said today anyone is free to challenge him for the state’s top post, including a “towel-clad” Umno leader.

Azmin was clearly taking a dig at Jamal Md Yunos, the Sungai Besar Umno division chief, who said he would make a better menteri besar.

“There is one youth who wears a towel who would like to challenge me in Bukit Antarabangsa. He is welcome.

“If you, ladies and gentlemen from Bukit Antarabangsa, wish to have a menteri besar who dresses in a towel, please pick him,” MalaysiaKini reported Azmin as saying at a constituency event today.

Azmin, who did not mention Jamal’s name, has been a constant target of the red shirts leader, who often stages “stunts” aimed at “exposing” the Selangor government.

Among Jamal’s recent antic was to take a sledgehammer to “smash” a cardboard cut-out of former de facto law minister Zaid Ibrahim, whom he accused of insulting the Selangor sultan.

That act resulted in a brief arrest.

Jamal said Selangor Umno liaison committee chairman Noh Omar had given him the green light to contest Azmin’s seat in the next general election, which must be called by August.

Azmin also said despite Selangor’s contributions to Putrajaya, the latter continues to bully the country’s riches state.

“Selangor is not only an advanced and industrialised state, many foreign investors come to invest here. In fact, the Department of Statistics has announced Selangor is once again the most developed state in Malaysia.

“We are the largest contributor to the national gross domestic product (GDP),” he was quoted as saying. – December 16, 2017.