KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 -- Bandar Kuching MP Dr Kelvin Yii has called on Umno Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh to set a good example and refrain from verbal abuse following his recent verbal altercation with federal minister Nga Kor Ming.

The DAP parliamentarian said Dr Akmal should show exemplary behaviour in politics and not display immaturity by resorting to such name-calling when he said was not becoming of a minister of the unity government that Umno is also part of.

Dr Yii said Dr Akmal, as a young leader, should have used proper and mature arguments to refute the statement or to add constructive criticism to the issue at hand.

"Argue policy with policy, proposals with better proposals, discourse with mature discourse.

"Only th...