Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad today confirmed that he did ask Maszlee Malik to resign from the cabinet.

“I’m not saying that he does everything wrong. There are some things which he does which are right, but because of these other reasons, I felt it is necessary for him to resign and he agreed, and so he resigned,” Mahathir said in a press conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya today.