Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad today confirmed that he did ask Maszlee Malik to resign from the cabinet.<br /><br />“I’m not saying that he does everything wrong. There are some things which he does which are right, but because of these other reasons, I felt it is necessary for him to resign and he agreed, and so he resigned,” Mahathir said in a press conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya today.