UMNO veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah quit as chairman of the party’s advisory council yesterday.

In a letter to party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Tengku Razaleigh said, despite the public and grassroots expressing their disappointment with Muhyiddin Yassin’s government, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob had retained almost all the ministers from that failed administration.

“Can they (ministers) help our party redeem our defeat in the last election and end the hung Parliament?

“Can we rely on them to give victory to our party in the next general election?” he said in the letter sighted by The Malaysian Insight.

Yesterday, Tengku Razaleigh said that he was on a mission to restore Umno’s legal and constitutional rights, as well as its place in national politics.

The Gua Musang MP said the party should get back to basics and bring back the idealism that he said was lost after Umno Baru was set up in 1988.

“I am part of the original Umno party with the mission to restore Umno’s legal and constitutional rights, and to do whatever necessary to restore its place in national politics and the national interest,” the veteran said while debating the Royal Address in the Dewan Rakyat.

Tengku Razaleigh had held his advisory post since July 2018. The Umno advisory council also includes Zahid, Umno deputy president Mohamad Hasan and Ismail. – September 22, 2021.