GE14 | In the old days, when Umno was in its youth, much of the party's grassroots leaders and supporters consisted of teachers.

But in the party's birth state of Johor, it was teachers who contributed to the downfall of one party warlord, Batu Pahat Umno chief Mohd Puad Zarkashi, in 2013.

Multiple Umno grassroots sources told Malaysiakini that teachers and their families revolted against Puad, who was then deputy education minister, over the alleged transfer of teachers who either supported the opposition or slighted him...