JOHOR Pakatan Harapan (PH) is appealing to the state government to allow the coalition’s elected representatives to sit in the district development action committee (JTPD).

Johor PKR deputy chairman Jimmy Puah Wee Tse said this is to ease work coordination since Barisan Nasional (BN) and PH are now allies at the federal government level.

“Johor PH will write an official letter on this matter soon. I hope the state government, especially Menteri Besar Onn Hafiz Ghazi will give due consideration to allow PH assemblymen and lawmakers to sit as members in the JTPD,” he told reporters after a meet-and-greet session in Tebrau parliamentary constituency in Johor Baru today.

“As we are now an alliance at the federal level, we need to participate in monthly meetings at the district office for work coordination.”

On Nov 28 last year, the Johor legislative assembly reportedly rejected the proposal to discuss the involvement of opposition assemblymen as members of JTPD.

The then menteri besar Hasni Mohammad reportedly said the state government had sought an explanation from the federal government on the matter and through the feedback from the Implementation Coordination Unit of the Prime Minister’s Department, the term assemblymen in JTPD was referring to assemblymen from the government bloc.

However, Hasni was quoted as saying that as a strategic partner, the state government was pleased to invite all PH assemblymen as observers in JTPD meetings. – Bernama, November 26, 2022.