Selangor to be more united under Najib

A big welcome to Selangor to Dato Seri Najib.

TANJONG KARANG, April 25 (Bernama) -- Datuk Noh Omar, the deputy chairman of the Selangor Umno liaison committee, today said unity at the state party level would be enhanced with the party president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as the committee's chairman.

He said the appointment provided a boost to the spirits of Selangor Umno to wrest the state back from present state government.

Noh, who is the Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industries, said this after opening the 30th meeting of Sekolah Kebangsaan Batu 9's parent-teacher association here today.

"I very much welcome this and am very happy that the Umno president himself is the chairman of the committee. This is a great honour for Selangor Umno," he said.

"Personally I thank Datuk Seri Najib for choosing me as deputy to help him," Noh said.

Asked to comment on the Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim's statement that the Selangor Umno liaison committee was chaired by Najib himself as there was weakness in the state Umno's leadership, Noh said Abdul Khalid should be careful in saying that as he too, when he was in Umno, lost contests for branch chief and the party's supreme council.

Noh said Abdul Khalid was the chairman of the Selangor Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR)'s state liaison committee as there were not many leaders in the party.

Meanwhile, Noh said the Sekolah Kebangsaan Batu 9 and Sekolah Menengah Seri Tiram Jaya in the Tanjong Karang parliamentary constituency that he represents had been chosen for a pioneer project to work idle land for an agricultural venture.

He said idle land was not only in village areas but also in school compounds and such land could be used to plant cash crops.

Noh said his ministry would allocate RM2,000 for each of 10 participants in the project, be they students or teachers, besides providing fertiliser and tools.

"We want to instill the spirit of being farming entrepreneurs right from school to raise the national food supply," he said.

-- BERNAMA