00:00An analyst has warned that the racialising of the recent cabinet reshuffle by past leaders
00:07will only discourage non-Muslim voters from backing the opposition,
00:11following comments on the appointment of two Chinese leaders to the Federal Territory's portfolio.
00:17Wong Chin Huat of Sunway University said evaluating ministers based on their beliefs and ethnicity
00:23reeked of tribalism.
00:26On Wednesday, past Secretary-General Taki Yudin Hassan claimed that the appointment of Hannah Yeo and Law Su Fui
00:32to the Federal Territory's portfolio was a deliberate strategy to strengthen the AP's dominance in Kuala Lumpur
00:39and other major urban centres in the country.
00:42Wong said the Islamic Party should emulate its former spiritual adviser, the late Nick Abdul Aziz Nikmat,
00:49who had rejected such tribalism and respected non-Muslims.
00:54Sharmin Kuti Sivaraman of Inti International University said
00:59class should not lose sleep over the reshuffle, but focus on providing checks and balances.
01:05He also said that the reshuffle gave MPs from DAP the opportunity to prove themselves.
01:11Pan Yuzhou, FMT.
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