The new national day logo and theme will make Malaysia ‘laughing stock' among its people and around when the Merdeka Day and Malaysia Day celebrations come, DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang says.
The much-criticised ‘Janji ditepati' (Promises fulfilled) theme of the celebrations and the accompanying logo, the Ipoh Timor MP said, have become the most divisive slogan in the nation's history.
This was also a contradiction of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's ‘signature policy slogan' of 1Malaysia.
"It is sad and shocking that this year's National Day is no longer conceived as a national celebration as it has been hijacked by Umno and BN.
"They are blatantly using their own slogan, which will divide rather than unite Malaysians, and yet nobody in the cabinet or government sees that this is just wrong and anti-national," Lim said.
This was also the latest and most potent example of Najib's 1Malaysia slogan being undermined and violated, "a living example of ‘Janji Ditepikan' ( Promises sidelined), instead of ‘Janji Detepati'."
The much-criticised ‘Janji ditepati' (Promises fulfilled) theme of the celebrations and the accompanying logo, the Ipoh Timor MP said, have become the most divisive slogan in the nation's history.
This was also a contradiction of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's ‘signature policy slogan' of 1Malaysia."It is sad and shocking that this year's National Day is no longer conceived as a national celebration as it has been hijacked by Umno and BN.
"They are blatantly using their own slogan, which will divide rather than unite Malaysians, and yet nobody in the cabinet or government sees that this is just wrong and anti-national," Lim said.
This was also the latest and most potent example of Najib's 1Malaysia slogan being undermined and violated, "a living example of ‘Janji Ditepikan' ( Promises sidelined), instead of ‘Janji Detepati'."
'Summon emergency cabinet meeting'
Lim asked: "Is Najib so desperate about his electoral prospects and those of Umno and BN in the next general election that the 55th Merdeka Day and 49th Malaysia Day have to be hijacked to advance their interests by the elevation of their election campaign of ‘Janji Ditepati' as the official Malaysia Day theme?"
Najib, he advised, should quickly summon an emergency cabinet meeting to change the theme for the celebrations.
The prime minister last week launched a two-month-long ‘Fly the Jalur Gemilang' campaign as part of the run-up to the coming National Day and Malaysia Day celebrations, which have adopted the BN theme ‘Janji Ditepati'.
However, Pakatan Rakyat had criticised it as not inclusive, while former information minister Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir has accused BN of hijacking the celebrations.
Responding to the criticism, current Information, Communications and Culture Minister Rais Yatim defended the move as normal practice in many other countries.
Lim asked: "Is Najib so desperate about his electoral prospects and those of Umno and BN in the next general election that the 55th Merdeka Day and 49th Malaysia Day have to be hijacked to advance their interests by the elevation of their election campaign of ‘Janji Ditepati' as the official Malaysia Day theme?"
Najib, he advised, should quickly summon an emergency cabinet meeting to change the theme for the celebrations.
The prime minister last week launched a two-month-long ‘Fly the Jalur Gemilang' campaign as part of the run-up to the coming National Day and Malaysia Day celebrations, which have adopted the BN theme ‘Janji Ditepati'.
However, Pakatan Rakyat had criticised it as not inclusive, while former information minister Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir has accused BN of hijacking the celebrations.
Responding to the criticism, current Information, Communications and Culture Minister Rais Yatim defended the move as normal practice in many other countries.
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