Parliament speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia has been flayed for justifiying his act of barring questions in Parliament related to the 1MDB scandal to the media, instead of the House.

“Pandikar likes to quote back to me one observation I had made in Parliament, that a good speaker does not speak much.

“Pandikar is not only a very talkative speaker, he even holds media conferences to justify his decisions and rulings, some of which are quite high-handed and most indefensible from the standpoint of impartial and independent interpretation of the parliamentary standing orders."