SHAH ALAM: Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim admitted that the cow's head demonstration to protest the relocation of the Section 19 temple to Section 23 in August was not engineered by Umno.

He said even though most of the demonstrators were Umno members, they did not represent the party but were acting on the own accord.

Khalid said the state government could not elaborate more on the incident as those involved had been taken to court.

"It will be up to the court now and they can defend themselves and explain their stand there," he told the state assembly.

He was answering an additional question by Ng Suee Lim (DAP-Sekinchan) about who were those whom he had referred to when answering the question of the cow's head incident.

Khalid also did not agree with Ng's call for Umno to be dissolved for practising racial politics.


"It is not for us to decide whether Umno should be dissolved or not."

On Yap Ee Wah (BN-Sungai Pelek)'s original question on steps taken by the state government to prevent the incident from recurring, Khalid said the state government had handled it maturely and prevented things from turning worse.

He said the incident was a lesson to the state government to be more careful in making decisions and to take into account the interests of the people.