A well-loved MB who brought Selangor to the fore

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KLANG: Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim brought about a new working culture to the state secretariat when he was appointed the mentri besar after Selangor changed hands from Barisan Nasional to Pakatan Harapan in 2008.

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Efficiency and speed were his maxims, and even journalists could see how things were being run like clockwork.The Wednesday press conferences, after the weekly executive council meeting, were so efficiently conducted that as the newsmen left after the briefing, Khalid’s aides handed out press statements in both English and Bahasa Malaysia.ALSO READ:Khalid was a stickler for efficiency, having been in the corporate sector for decades, and this also saw him run the state like a conglomerate.

Guthrie Corporation Ltd then became Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd, for which Khalid was the chief executive officer from 1995 to 2003. In the 2013 general election, Khalid gave up his parliamentary seat and contested for the Port Klang state seat, as opposed to defending the Ijok seat, which he also won with a comfortable majority.

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