00:00Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the proposed Urban Renewal Act would not force property
00:06owners to give up their homes or alter their ethnic composition of residential areas.
00:11In this bill, we do not have the right to move the original owner.
00:18I want to give a guarantee to the government that the issue of the original owner does not arise at all.
00:26Citing the Seri Pradesh housing area in Bandar Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur as an example,
00:31Anwar assured MPs that its demographic makeup would remain unchanged.
00:35He was responding to concerns raised by Kuala Terengganu MP Ahmad Amzad Hashim
00:40that the bill could displace long-time residents.
00:44The opposition previously claimed that the proposed law was a subtle method
00:48to displace poor Malays and Indians.
00:51Past Deputy President Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said that MPs from Perikatan Nasional
00:56would oppose the bill as it could disrupt harmony.
01:00Natasha Buzd, FMT News.
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