Talk about Selangor Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali possibly contesting in the 'safer' Shah Alam parliamentary seat have raised concerns that the two-term parliamentarian is afraid that he may lose in his Gombak seat at the coming general election.

Azmin is seen as facing a problem in defending Gombak as it is a stronghold of PAS. The Islamist party has severed ties with PKR and is seen as increasingly BN-friendly.

The relationship between the Azmin-led Selangor government and PAS worsened after the former reportedly cut the annual allocations for PAS state and federal lawmakers in the state...