00:00DAP's Lim Lip Eng has lodged a police report against past Deputy President Tuan Ibrahim
00:08Tuan Man over alleged racist remarks about non-Malays.
00:12Yesterday, Tuan Ibrahim reportedly said if the Chinese and Indians conversed in their
00:16mother tongues, it would cause distrust in the Malay community.
00:21Lim said such remarks were not only incorrect but potentially divisive, Kuang Wai Po reported.
00:28He also said inciting tension and stirring up racial sentiments was against the law,
00:33punishable under Sections 504 and 505C of the Penal Code.
00:38Lim called on enforcement agencies to prevent the escalation of racial tensions
00:43and to uphold Malaysia's harmony.
00:45Tuan Ibrahim claimed the use of vernacular languages would cause negative assumptions,
00:50which was why Malay should be the intermediary language.
00:54In response, Tanah Rata Assemblyman Ho Chi Yang said,
00:58past cannot disparage the mother tongue of non-Malays and also seek their votes.
01:04Natasha Bust, FMT News.
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