No Action On Mukhriz - Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 (Bernama) -- The Umno Youth movement will not take any action against the Jerlun Member of Parliament, Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir, who had written a letter to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi last week urging him to step down.

Umno Youth head Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussien said the decision was made at a meeting of the Umno Youth exco and state Umno Youth heads this afternoon based on the explanation given by Mukhriz, who is also the Umno Youth exco, that the letter was his personal letter to the Prime inister.

He said the decision was also taken based on Mukhriz's explanation that the letter, which was also sent to four other Umno leaders, had been leaked to the public by an unknown party.

"We have decided not to take any action against him," said Hishammuddin to loud applause from Mukhriz's supporters who were present at Level 38, Menara Onn after the meeting of the Umno Youth Exco and State Youth chiefs here.

The meeting was held as a post-mortem on the outcome of the general election on March 8 besides discussing several issues that had cropped up including the letter written by Mukhriz which asked Abdullah to step down following the failure of the Barisan Nasional (BN) to retain the two-third majority in the general election.

Hishammuddin said the meeting today also decided that Umno Youth would consolidate the movement by taking the incident as a lesson to strengthen the party in future.

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