PKR deputy secretary-general Bryan Ng asked why Wong had not filed a Freedom of Information (FOI) application to seek details of the transaction despite being outspoken on the matter in the press.
Ng said Selangor had an FOI enactment that had been in force since 2013, giving anyone the right to request for information from the state government, to which it must respond within 30 days.
“Under the enactment, an applicant is not even required to state a reason for their request. The process is straightforward. The obligations on the receiving department are clear.
“And crucially, every step, every response, every refusal, every reason given, is documented and legally enforceable. Informal letters and press conferences are not. They generate attention, but they generate no legal obligation on anyone.
“If the goal is genuinely to obtain information and hold institutions to account, the FOI route is the correct one,” Ng said in a statement.
FMT has reached out to Wong for comment.
The issue centres on the sale of about 68.4ha of land marked for development near the Ayer Hitam forest reserve in Kinrara.
In December, Selangor environment executive councillor Jamaliah Jamaluddin said the land involved was degazetted as a forest reserve in 1926.
Jamaliah said then that the Subang Jaya City Council did not receive any application to develop the area.
Wong however criticised the Selangor government for failing to respond to three formal letters on the deal, seeking the purpose and price of the land sale, among others.
He said more than 7,000 Kinrara residents signed a petition asking his office to intervene and to ask the Selangor government for facts, figures, and full transparency on the land transaction.
The PKR MP also dismissed Selangor executive councillor Ng Sze Han’s call to lodge a report over the sale, saying it would be premature to do so without first obtaining the “full facts and figures” of the transaction.
Ng, the Kinrara assemblyman, also said the menteri besar would address the matter at the upcoming state assembly sitting.