COMMENT | Leaders must not indulge in racial insults

COMMENT | Kedah Menteri Besar (MB) Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor is no stranger to controversy. In September, a video surfaced in which he appeared to laugh at a person he spoke to, who was asking for aid from a Kedah state agency.

Earlier this month, he announced that the Kedah state government has awarded a permit to a Kuala Lumpur-based company to prospect and extract rare earth elements in the state purportedly worth ‘RM43 trillion’. It was later clarified that the rare earth was only worth an estimated RM62 billion, and not RM43 trillion.

His latest controversy was in relation to the Sri Raja Muniswarar Hindu temple in Taman Bersatu, Kuala Kedah. The MB was heavily panned by various quarters, including the opposition, and even by political allies of his own party, PAS.

In response to these criticisms, Sanusi published a statement on his Facebook page, where he suggested that his critics, were "drunk on the toddy of popularity" and advised them not to act as if they are "drunk on three bottles after consuming only one".

When faced with further backlash over his comments...