Muhyiddin promised to preserve vernacular schools, Muda reminds Armada

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KUALA LUMPUR – The youth-based Muda has reminded Bersatu’s youth wing Armada that the latter’s own party president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin had given an assurance when he was education minister that vernacular schools would not be abolished.

Muda information chief Zaidel Baharuddin said his counterpart in Armada, Mohd Ashraf Mustaqim Badrul Munir, should not just condemn Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim for defending vernacular schools, but also look at the decisions made by Bersatu’s own leadership.

Zaidel referred to the assurance made by Muhyiddin when, as education minister and deputy prime minister, he launched the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 eight years ago.

“If Ashraf can only make noises towards Sim, but is scared and not brave enough to reprimand the former education minister who promised the moon and stars, then it is confirmed that he (Ashraf) is not a nationalist and is a political apple polisher,” Zaidel said in a statement last night.

Earlier yesterday, Ashraf had said Armada stood by its stance to abolish vernacular schools in stages, as the wing believes that the use of the national language has eroded with the existence of these schools.

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