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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Don’t challenge Chinese, Indians’ rights to study in vernacular schools, says MCA Youth

MCA Youth chief Chong Sun Win says Chinese and Indian students have a right to learn their mother tongue in vernacular schools. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, October 11, 2014.MCA Youth chief Chong Sun Win says Chinese and Indian students have a right to learn their mother tongue in vernacular schools. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, October 11, 2014.
The rights of the Chinese and Indians to learn their mother tongue in vernacular schools should not be challenged, MCA Youth chief Chong Win Soon said today.
Speaking at the 50th MCA Youth annual general assembly today, Chong told delegates that such schools were not obstacles to national unity, The Star Online reported.
“Non-Chinese students studying at Chinese primary schools throughout the country now comprise 12% of the total number of students. This means that SJK(C) schools are now more diverse than national schools.
On October 5, Umno Petaling Jaya Utara division deputy head Mohamad Azli Mohamed Saad had reportedly said that the party's general assembly next month should debate whether Chinese vernacular schools should be abolished.
This, he said, was because Chinese schools were being used by the opposition to breed racial and anti-government sentiments.
Cheras Umno division chief Datuk Seri Syed Ali Al Habshee reiterated the call on October 7, urging the government to abolish vernacular schools and to set up a single-stream school system which, he said, could help in fostering national unity in the country.
He had said that single-stream schools were also not aimed at killing off the mother tongue of other races as they could learn those languages in national schools.
In The Star Online report, Chong urged Barisan Nasional to return to its founding principles, which was nationalism for all races.
“When our MCA founder Tun Tan Cheng Lock talked about nationalism, it was for a Malayan nationalism, not for a Chinese type of nationalism.
“It was never about nationalism for any one race. I believe that if Barisan went back to the foundation laid by our founders, the rakyat will return to support us,” he said.
The report said Chong’s opening speech received thunderous applause and delegates gave him a standing ovation.
- TMI

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