IT IS up to former Umno veteran Noh Omar if he wants to join Perikatan Nasional (PN), Selangor Perikatan Nasional chairman Mohamed Azmin Ali said.

Azmin said PN and Bersatu are open to any individual that wants to join them.

“Noh has the experience. He is one of the leaders who is brave enough to voice out issues that are happening in Umno and Barisan Nasional.

“We leave it up to him. We are ready to accept anyone that wants to join PN,” Azmin said at the Gombak Setia Hari Raya open house in Selangor today.

In January, Umno secretary-general Ahmad Maslan after a Supreme Council meeting, announced the dismissal of Noh and former youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin for breaching the party’s constitution.

It was reported that Noh who was former Selangor Umno liaison committee chairman had confirmed that he would contest a seat in Selangor under a PN ticket. 

However, he did not name the party that he would join or if he contested under PN direct membership.

On April 29, Utusan Malaysia reported that Noh’s daughter Nurul Syazwani Noh is expected to contest as a Bersatu candidate in the Selangor polls. 

She is expected to stand in one of the state legislative assembly seats under the Tanjong Karang parliamentary constituency, a source in the report said.

“Yes, her name is on the list, but let the central leadership announce it,” said the unnamed source.

Nurul joined Bersatu after her father was sacked from Umno in January. She is now the leader of the Tanjong Karang Srikandi Muda wing.

Noh was among a group of Umno bigwigs who did not make the candidate nomination list in the last general election.

The former entrepreneur development and cooperatives minister, who held the Tanjong Karang seat since 1995, claimed his name was dropped because he had criticised some of the political decisions made by Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

In January, the Umno Supreme Council suspended Noh’s membership for six years. The former Tanjong Karang lawmaker was later dismissed from the party at his own request. – May 6, 2023.