A Bersatu leader has accused Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli of taking a holier-than-thou approach to make the Malays seem corrupt.
According to the party's information chief Razali Idris, Rafizi should instead focus on advancing the country's economy.
"Rafizi is portraying himself as a noble, or angelic person - as if he's always right.
"He makes it sound like he's the only one who champions the Malay, Muslim, and bumiputera cause, and links the Malays with the Jana Wibawa funds," Razali said in a statement today.
"I just want to ask whether the courts have decided on the Jana Wibawa case, and if yes, who has been convicted?"
Razali was responding to Rafizi's statement yesterday that the government would not be "riding" on Malays just to enrich a few.
"I just want to answer them simply (that), God willing, we will not ride on the Malays so a few can steal Jana Wibawa's money which, in the end, (the projects) were Ali Baba-ed to non-Malay companies," Rafizi wrote on Facebook, in response to prodding from the opposition about the government's bumiputera economic agenda.
The Jana Wibawa programme introduced by the previous Perikatan Nasional administration was supposed to help bumiputera contractors get work during the Covid-19 pandemic. The work was then allegedly subcontracted to non-Malay companies.
The programme turned into a corruption scandal that implicated multiple Bersatu leaders. There has yet to be a conviction.
Razali slammed Rafizi for jumping the gun by continuously linking opposition leaders with the Jana Wibawa scandal before the court decided on the matter.
"I urge Rafizi to behave like an economy minister rather than act like a minister of politics and propaganda.
"After a year in power, he (Rafizi) still maintains the old style of squabbling with the rakyat. No wonder the economy is going nowhere." - Mkini
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