Ministry urged to clarify CNY decors for schools
Published on: Friday, January 10, 2020
By: Malay Mail
KUALA LUMPUR: The Education Ministry must take immediate action to prevent any confusion over an attempt to depict Chinese New Year as a religious celebration, DAP said.
The ruling party’s legal bureau chief Ramkarpal Singh said the ministry must make it clear that no wrong had been committed by a Puchong public school that had decorated its grounds for the upcoming Chinese New Year as alleged by a Malay party in painting the episode as an attempt to propagate non-Islamic religions.
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“The Education Ministry must launch an inquiry into this episode and set the record straight — that it is no offence to put up any decorations in schools during festive seasons such as Hari Raya, Chinese New Year or Deepavali,” Ramkarpal said in a statement.
He was responding to Parti Bumiputera Perkasa Malaysia (Putra) vice-president and lawyer Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz who threatened action against SMK Pusat Bandar Puchong (1) in Pusat Bandar Puchong for its Chinese New Year decorations.
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