Muhyiddin denies making 'ungrateful' remark
Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin today hit out at the Chinese papers for twisting his words and putting him in a bad light among the Chinese community.
Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin today hit out at the Chinese papers for twisting his words and putting him in a bad light among the Chinese community.
He was responding to reports in the Chinese media that he had said the Chinese community was ‘ungrateful' despite being given much assistance by the government.
Speaking to reporters during his first visit to the Education Ministry as the education minister, Muhyiddin explained that his remarks were just based on his assessment of the results from the Bukit Gantang by-election.
In that by-election, the usually pro-BN Chinese voters had gone to the opposition, allowing PAS' Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin to win against Umno's Ismail Saffian.
The Chinese press played up his quote in an interview in Mingguan Malaysia in which he had apparently said that the Chinese were being ungrateful to the BN government.
Muhyiddin also said that MCA president Ong Tee Keat had found nothing wrong with his statement in Mingguan Malaysia.
"I think it's the Chinese papers. I don't know. I don't read Chinese but I got people who reported to me and they (the Chinese dailies) twisted my statement," he said.
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