By Syed Jaymal Zahiid
KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Ahmad Maslan said today the Selangor government's ban on 1Malaysia logo on billboards was due to fear of its success.
The Umno information chief also said that the Pakatan Rakyat-controlled Selangor government was against racial pluralism by banning the logo.
"To reject the idea is to reject unity, to reject racial harmony... to reject 1Malaysia means it does not appreciate the good values the idea promotes. Do the opposition want to promote 3Malaysia in one country?" he told FMT.
A shopkeeper in Klang had complained that the Kuala Langat district council had ripped off a 1Malaysia poster he had put up in front of the store despite getting approval to do so in September this year.
According to a report in the The Star today, state housing and local government committee chief, Ronnie Liu, said the 1Malaysia billboard ads were a political message from the Barisan Nasional federal government.
He added that they were not allowed under local laws, stressing that the law was not new and dismissed the idea it was a Pakatan tactic against its political foe.
Liu also said that Pakatan has never placed any of its party logos on ads in the state.
"Among the things they (Pakatan) fear is the the success of the 1Malaysia concept. Most of the voters are celebrating the idea; therefore they are trying their best to do anything to stop its success," said Ahmad.
He also said that 1Malaysia, the brainchild of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak', is a government initiative and not BN's.
