NEW Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) board members will be finalised before the end of the first parliamentary sitting, said Khalid Abdul Samad.

The Federal Territories minister said he has received nominations, and will come up with the final list soon.

“I should be able to finalise it before the end of the parliamentary session, hopefully before the middle of this month,” he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur today after a walkabout at cement mixer plantations in Jalan Chan Sow Lin.

Present was Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai.

Khalid said the nominees are professionals involved in town planning in Kuala Lumpur.

“I will come up with the final list and get endorsement from our leadership. We want to make sure everyone is happy with the line-up.

“The names I have in mind are all professionals, people who are involved in town planning, architects, engineers, businessmen, who are in KL,” he said, stressing that the individuals are not political appointees.

Khalid previously said all Barisan Nasional representatives on the DBKL advisory board were required to resign immediately.

Following those remarks, all BN reps on the board quit their posts by July 13, upon receiving formal letters.

MCA’s Ng How Doo said the letters requested those who were political appointees to step down voluntarily.

S. Rajah, of MIC, was the first to tender his resignation to Kuala Lumpur Mayor Md Amin Nordin Abdul Aziz on May 5.

The others who followed suit were Ng, Ahmad Faisal Abdul Karim (Umno), Rizalman Mokhtar (Umno), Mustapa Kamal Mohd Yusoff (Umno), Zainal Abidin Mohd Rafique (Umno), A. Samalah (MyPPP) and Wilson Lau Hoi Keong (Gerakan).

The BN board members were appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, on the recommendation of former Federal Territories minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, for a term of two years, beginning last year. – August 7, 2018.