KUALA LUMPUR: Muda president Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman has criticised his former mentor Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed who recently remarked that promoting Malaysia as a multiracial country is against the Federal Constitution.
The Muar member of parliament said that the former prime minister should be focusing on uniting the people instead of the opposite.
"We should not be looking back on past historical differences. Instead, we should be looking forward to what unites us as one people in one country.
"Because we believe that an attack on the non-Malays and non-Bumiputeras is equivalent to an attack against all Malaysians," he said at a press conference as reported in Free Malaysia Today.
"There is no other country which (the non-Malays) can go to if we fail because the Chinese and Indians of Malaysia treat this country as their motherland.
"(The non-Malays of today) are the second, third and fourth generation who were born here, lived here, studied here, worked here, and will most likely shut their eyes for the last time in this blessed land".
Via Twitter recently, Dr Mahathir claimed that promoting Malaysia as a multiracial country was against the Federal Constitution
He also claimed that prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is adhering to DAP's manifesto.
Though DAP only holds four minister positions in the cabinet, Dr Mahathir claimed that the 40 DAP members in the government could pull their support resulting in the toppling of the Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim-led government.