
“But when one becomes the opposition, you fan racial sentiments instead,” the Amanah vice-president said in hitting out at the parties in the current administration during the debate on Budget 2022.
He also expressed regret that the death of fireman Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim had been politicised, with the PH government being accused of failing to protect the Malays and defending the non-Malays.
The coalition, he added, had also been accused of being controlled by non-Malays and non-Muslims.
The then opposition, he said, was prepared to manipulate a tragedy for their political interests only because “the victim was Malay”.
“Where was the Keluarga Malaysia motto or a similar desire for unity then?”
Adib died at the National Heart Institute (IJN) a month after being critically injured at the scene of a riot outside the Seafield Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Subang Jaya in November 2018.
In 2019, a coroner’s court ruled that “more than two unidentified persons” had inflicted injuries that eventually caused the fireman’s death.
Meanwhile, speaking of the upcoming Melaka state polls, Khalid predicted that both Umno and PAS would label DAP as the enemy of Islam and the Malays in their election campaigns.
“This is BN’s Keluarga Malaysia and level of political maturity,” he said.
The former federal territories minister also asked how many Malays from Selangor had migrated to states controlled by PAS and Umno during PH’s reign.
“However, if more Malays had migrated to Selangor, then I rest my case. Don’t lie to the Malays.”
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