COMMENT | While I agree with the prime minister and others who had criticized Pakatan Harapan's shadow budget as unsustainable, unrealistic and full of contradictions, several items in their shadow budget stands out.

For many years, Harapan had long criticized the BN government's removal of blanket subsidies for petrol prices in order to reduce wastage, curb smuggling and reduce unsustainable and inefficient subsidies.

Although the headlines of their shadow budget say that they will introduce a 20 sen per litre subsidy for petrol, the fine print in there says that it is only limited to motorcycles and cars below 1,000cc, as it wants the subsidies to be targeted. Harapan says that only Malaysians with a valid MyKad will benefit from this subsidy...