Another person today claimed to be the target of the chair thrown towards the stage where Dr Mahathir Mohamad was speaking to hundreds who had packed the Dewan Raja Muda Musa in Shah Alam.

Mohamad Taufik Abas, a former PPBM Youth exco member who posed a question to Mahathir minutes before pandemonium broke out, disagreed that the chair had been targeted at Mahathir, saying the person who flung it would have sat in the front row.

“I felt the chair fly very close by me as I was asking the question. Why would someone from the middle want to aim for the stage?” he asked at a press conference today.

Taufik, 29, had asked Mahathir a question on the Kampung Memali incident of 1985 which claimed 18 lives.

PPBM Youth chief Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman however disagreed with Taufik, saying that Mahathir had answered all eight questions that were controversial before the ruckus took place.

“He was in the midst of answering the Memali questions when the incident broke out,” Syed Saddiq told FMT.

He said video footage clearly showed that the objects were aimed at the stage and towards Mahathir, not Taufik.

Taufik is the second person to claim being the target of the chair. Organisers have said the chair was directed at Mahathir.

Two days ago, Shah Alam PPBM committee member Wan Mohammad Ashraf Nasjaruddin said the objects thrown in the hall were meant to stop him from asking “difficult” questions to Mahathir.

“They were meant for me, one of them even landed right in front of me,” said Ashraf who lodged a police report on the matter.

Police have so far detained 13 people since the incident on Aug 13. On Wednesday, Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said police would also call in organisers of the forum for failing to ensure security at the event.