A Perikatan Nasional MP has questioned housing and local government minister Nga Kor Ming’s criticism of the opposition’s resistance to the Urban Renewal Bill 2025, which has been shelved until the next Dewan Rakyat sitting in October.
Tasek Gelugor MP Wan Saiful Wan Jan told FMT that while PN initiated the drafting of the bill when it led the government in 2021, the coalition was against the current iteration as it contained several “bad clauses”.
Earlier today, Nga said it was “unreasonable” for those who once supported the bill to now oppose it, insisting that urban renewal guidelines had existed since 2012 – and that the initiative should not be politicised.
“If the guidelines had existed since 2012, then why didn’t his party (DAP) push for the bill when he was in the (Pakatan Harapan) government in 2018?” asked Wan Saiful.
“There are too many bad clauses in…