SHAH ALAM, June 21 — Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim insisted today he is not worried he may lose his job, despite news reports alleging waning support from his fellow PAS Islamist lawmakers within Malaysia’s most-developed state.

The second-term mentri besar added that job security in a political field can never be certain and he would not lose any sleep over it as long as he does a proper job.

“Unhappiness is quite common. I’m dealing with a very sensitive issue,” Khalid said, referring to his handling of the state Islamic religious authorities’ seizure of bibles from the Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM).

“It is not my goal to achieve comfort or being liked by everybody,” he added.

He also insisted that he is only trying to do his job in an orderly and organised manner, within the legal boundaries.

“In the political arena, job security is quite not as certain as for example in corporate sector.

I take it as a challenge and a responsibility. I am not worried about that,” he told reporters.

Yesterday, news portal The Malaysian Insider quoted state PAS leaders such as Jaafar Sulaiman as saying that Khalid’s tendency to make unilateral decisions without consulting Pakatan Rakyat (PR) parties have resulted in a unanimous call for his removal.

Selangor PAS however later repudiated the report, saying the article was “erroneous” and did not reflect the stand of  Islamist party’s state chapter.

Selangor PAS secretary Mohd Khairuddin Othman also confirmed that the Islamist party’s state leadership has instructed Jaafar to take legal action against the news portal for its “erroneous” article.

Khalid’s position as MB has remained contentious since his own party, PKR, initiated the so-called “Kajang Move” to oust him from the position.

The move was ostensibly engineered to remove the Port Klang assemblyman as MB and to replace him with PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who had intended to contest the Kajang state seat which was vacated in February.

But the “Kajang move” fell through after Malaysia’s second highest court overturned his sodomy acquittal and sentenced him to five years in jail earlier this year. Anwar has filed for an appeal against this decision.

Although Anwar’s disqualification had then appeared to put to rest plans to remove Khalid, recent controversies involving the Selangor administration have prompted new agitations for his removal.