Bersatu leader Azmin Ali claimed the Anwar Ibrahim-led federal government awarded the project to import eggs from India to Deepak Jaikishan, a carpet trader and vocal critic of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor.

In his speech at a Perikatan Nasional (PN) ceramah in Kuala Lumpur last night, the former senior minister also alleged that the contract was given through direct negotiation, against the new government’s pledge to end such a practice for government projects.

“(The government) tries to solve the shortage of eggs by...