Kuala Lampur, Nov. 19 -- Petaling Jaya Utara Maria Chin Abdullah denied participating in a clandestine meeting of 22 MPs with Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali late last night.

The first-time lawmaker wondered at the fuss in Parliament after exiting another closed-door meeting on economic policies this afternoon chaired by Azmin.

"For me, it was on the economic policy. We were just having our usual discussion on economic policies, not anything related with PKR.

"It's a closed-door meeting on economic policies, so not up to me to say who is there," she told reporters in Parliament who asked if the afternoon meeting was a political matter.

The former electoral watchdog activist pointed out that economic policies are a polit...