Multingual side menu issue with latest ionic release 1.2.4

I have a simple example of side menu in two languages arabic and english. https://plnkr.co/edit/BLGXBXRIDaH9l3WmDWfU?p=preview

I’m getting this error and entire navicon is getting hidden after two clicks. Only works for first time

ionic.bundle.min.js:13436TypeError: Cannot read property ‘outerHTML’ of null
at pre (https://code.ionicframework.com/1.2.4/js/ionic.bundle.min.js:25267:56)
at Y (https://code.ionicframework.com/1.2.4/js/ionic.bundle.min.js:13401:89)
at S (https://code.ionicframework.com/1.2.4/js/ionic.bundle.min.js:13389:363)
at g (https://code.ionicframework.com/1.2.4/js/ionic.bundle.min.js:13382:384)
at S (https://code.ionicframework.com/1.2.4/js/ionic.bundle.min.js:13389:498)
at g (https://code.ionicframework.com/1.2.4/js/ionic.bundle.min.js:13382:384)
at S (https://code.ionicframework.com/1.2.4/js/ionic.bundle.min.js:13389:498)
at g (https://code.ionicframework.com/1.2.4/js/ionic.bundle.min.js:13382:384)
at S (https://code.ionicframework.com/1.2.4/js/ionic.bundle.min.js:13389:498)
at g (https://code.ionicframework.com/1.2.4/js/ionic.bundle.min.js:13382:384)

The same is working with 1.0.0-beta.11 so I don’t know how to resolve this issue. Please advice.

Also the side menu direction left or right cannot be taken from scope variables so i duplicated the entire code to solve that issue.