KUALA LUMPUR: Barisan Nasional secretary-general Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz says he will attend the coalition’s supreme council meeting this Friday.
This despite being told that some component party members from MCA and MIC had said they may not attend the meeting.
“Come on... I will come. I have no problem to deal with. I will come. They (MCA and MiC) should come lah...”
Nazri said he was not racist, but maintained that the rights of Malays and Islam, as well as all races and religions, should be safeguarded.
“You know me. I am a Malaysian and I am not racist,” he said at Umno headquarters in Menara Dato Onn.
MCA and MIC had, in a statement on Monday, taken aim at Nazri’s appointment as BN secretary-general, which they claimed was not done according to the coalition’s constitution.
MCA president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong and his MIC counterpart, Tan Sri S.A. Vigneswaran, had said the two parties were pushing for the dissolution of BN and had mooted the exploration of a new alliance.
The two had urged the BN Supreme Council to hold a meeting immediately to decide on the fate of the coalition.
Wee and Vigneswaran, in their statement, said this was prompted by repeated attacks to “the foundation and the spirit of cooperation and collective responsibility” of BN.
They said the “uncalled for racial remarks” by Nazri in Semenyih had further damaged ties between the three founding parties.
Nazri had reportedly called for Chinese and Tamil vernacular schools to be closed, though he later denied saying this.