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Tourism Minister: NO CLOSURE of JONKER WALK!

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PETALING STREET
CHINATOWN IN KUALA LUMPUR: A MAJOR TOURIST SPOT.

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Malaysiakini

Tony Pua 11:57AM Jun 25, 2013

MP SPEAKS After shutting down the uber-popular Jonker Street market, will Umno-BN now shut down the Petaling Street market as well in Kuala Lumpur?

In a shocking move involving political vengeance and retaliation against the non-Malay community, the new Malacca Chief Minister Idris Haron last week announced the closure of the Jonker Street weekend market, which is an extremely popular 13-year-old tourist destination in an area often regarded as the Malacca Chinatown.
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But this is the first physical act by Umno to victimise the Chinese community for the latter’s perceived support for Pakatan Rakyat.

In fact, we have to assume that this major move to punish the Chinese voters is a directive coming directly from the top of the Umno leadership itself.

And if true, then this will only be the beginning of a series of actions which Umno-led governments will take to discriminate against, sideline, punish as well as humiliate any of the minority races in the country which they deem not to have given support to Umno-BN.

Perhaps, the new Tourism Minister Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz will announce a similar move to close down the historic Petaling Street.  Or why stop at just closing these “Chinatowns”, why not just cancel Christmas or even more impactful, ban Deepavali or Chinese New Year celebrations?

The acts by these Umno governments runs in direct contrasts with the Pakatan-led administrations which goes out of its way to ensure that all their voters, regardless of political affiliation, will enjoy the fruits of our administration.
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When the Selangor government provided free water to individual households or insurance for the elderly, it was granted to all regardless or race, religion or political affiliation.

This is similar in Penang, when it became the first state government to eliminate hardcore poverty in the country, despite the fact that the majority of the beneficiaries are Malays who had then supported BN.

While Pakatan continues to serve all Malaysians regardless of whether they had voted for us, we are witnessing an increasingly vindictive BN where MCA threw its tantrum by shutting down all their service centres, while Umno demonstrated their racist mindset by not only poisoning the minds of the people, but by destroying people’s livelihoods.

‘Will BN shut down Petaling Street, too?’

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