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Khalid bin Abdul Samad ( Jawi: خالد بن عبدالصمد; born 14 August 1957) is a Malaysian
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who has served as
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of Kemubu Agricultural Development Authority (KADA) since December 2024. He had served as the Minister of Federal Territories in the
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(PH) administration under former
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from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for
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from March 2008 to November 2022. He is a member, Communications Director and State Chairman of the Federal Territories of the National Trust Party (AMANAH), a component party of the PH coalition and was a member of the
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(PAS), a former component party of the former
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(PR) and
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(BA) coalitions. He is also the younger brother of
Shahrir Abdul Samad Shahrir bin Abdul Samad ( Jawi: شهریار بن عبدالصمد; born 22 November 1949) is a Malaysian politician who was the Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (2008-2009), a Member of Parliament of Malaysia and the former ...
, former Minister and MP of the
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(UMNO), a component party of the
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(BN) coalition. Before PH and BN established political cooperation and formed the federal
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in November 2022, they were opposing politically as both of them were in opposing political sides.


Early life

Khalid was born in Kota Bharu,
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in 1957. He graduated with a degree in Fuel and Energy Engineering from
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in 1979 and then worked for
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.


Political career

He was a columnist at ''
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'' and a prominent member of the moderate wing of PAS before they split to found
AMANAH The National Trust Party ( Malay: ''Parti Amanah Negara''; abbrev: AMANAH) is a registered political party in Malaysia advocating a reformist strand of political Islam. The party was founded as the Malaysia Workers' Party ( Malay: ''Parti Pe ...
in 2015. Khalid joined PAS in 1983 and became a central committee member from 1987 to 1993. In 1987, he was detained for nine months under the Internal Security Act (ISA) during
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crackdown. He had unsuccessfully contested as PAS candidate the parliamentary seats of Kuala Krai (1986),
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(1990), Sri Gading (1999) and Shah Alam (2004) in the general elections before finally won the Shah Alam seat in the 2008 general election and retained it in the 2013 general election. In 2010, Khalid became engaged in a debate with fellow opposition (later pro-government independent) Member of Parliament
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over the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims. After Khalid stated that he opposed a
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law that prohibited non-Muslims from using the word "Allah", Zulkifli lodged a police report accusing Khalid of sedition. Zulkifi, a
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MP, moved to Selangor to run in the Shah Alam seat against Khalid in the 2013 election as a
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(BN) candidate, but was beaten by Khalid who was re-elected with an increased margin. In August 2014, Khalid was charged under Section 4 of the Sedition Act for allegedly questioning the executive powers of the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) in relation to the confiscation of Malay-language and Iban-language bibles. Khalid was among several other opposition politicians as well as non-politicians arrested in the 2014 Malaysian sedition dragnet. Khalid again managed to retain the Shah Alam seat in the 2018 general election but the first time for the Amanah party and was soon selected as the new PH coalition federal government cabinet minister. On 23 October 2022, AMANAH election director Asmuni Awi revealed that Khalid would contest for the
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federal seat in the 2022 general election. Asmuni also commented that AMANAH was taking risk to field Khalid to contest for the seat instead of the
Shah Alam Shah Alam (, from Persian language, Persian, meaning "king of the world") is a city and the state capital of Selangor, Malaysia which is situated within the Petaling District and a small portion of the neighbouring Klang District. Shah Alam rep ...
federal seat which is the stronghold of Khalid. Khalid also added that it was not an easy decision to leave Shah Alam where he had served as MP from 2008 to 2022 for three terms and 14 years. He lost the election to
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from BN and UMNO by a minority of 4,632 votes by garnering 20,410 votes. His defeat also paved the way for Johari to return as Titiwangsa MP and is the only electoral defeat of PH in
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.


Election results


Controversies

# The gazettement of the Kuala Lumpur City Plan (KLCP) 2020 by Federal Territories Minister YB Khalid Abdul Samad late last October, was met with dismay by many stakeholders. The gazetted plan was neither the 2008 draft local plan nor the 2013 revised plan, but a “2015” version that had not gone through the processes and procedures required, as stipulated under the Federal Territory Planning Act. # The use of the Land Acquisition Act upon Kampung Baru residents. A provision of RM10 billion was made to buy Kampung Baru land, without the Cabinet’s prior approval. It is believed that he could have protected the people's interest in the Sungai Baru flats case and not allowing the residents to sign a lopsided agreement with the developer during his time as the Federal Territories minister. Similarly in 2017, developers had approached his predecessor to get the residents' signatures, but it was declined due to questionable track records. # Khalid filed a suit against Mahamad Naser in December 2017 claiming that he (Mahamad Naser) made malicious statements against him in a seminar organised by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) on Sept 28, 2017 at the Tengku Ampuan Jemaah Mosque, Bukit Jelutong in Shah Alam. Khalid claimed that Mahamad Naser, had in a lecture entitled, `Discourse on current issues and Selangor state legislation: Doctrine: Challenges and Constitution,’ had among other matters, stated that he (Khalid) was strongly against RUU355, against the implementation of Islamic law including hudud, and opposed efforts to empower the Syariah Courts. The High Court on July 17, 2019, ruled in favour of Khalid and ordered Mahamad Naser to pay him RM80,000. A Federal Court three-member panel comprising Justices Tan Sri Rohana Yusuf and Federal Court judges Datuk Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal and Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah, in an online court proceeding today, dismissed Khalid’s application and ordered him to pay RM30,000 costs.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Khalid Abdul Samad 1957 births Living people People from Kota Bharu Malaysian politicians of Malay descent Malaysian Muslims Malaysian bloggers Malaysian engineers National Trust Party (Malaysia) politicians Former Malaysian Islamic Party politicians Government ministers of Malaysia Alumni of the University of Leeds Malaysian MPs 2008–2013