Perkasa comes to defence of headmaster over changing room issue

The Malay right-wing non-governmental organisation Perkasa has urged the authorities to act against individuals who politicise the recent issue over pupils eating recess meals at a changing room of a school in Sungai Buloh.

Its vice-president Datuk Zulkifli Noordin said certain quarters had taken advantage of the situation to slander the headmaster of Sekolah Kebangsaan Seri Pristana, Mohamad Nasir Mohd Nor, by branding him as a racist who forced non-Malay pupils to eat in the toilet.

"Clearly, the matter has been distorted and coated with lies when the truth is that the school has a small canteen that can only accommodate 600 pupils.

"The decision (to use the changing room) was made following a discussion between the teachers and the parent-teacher association, and the headmaster was only implementing the decision," he said at a news conference to announce the formation of the Malaysian Inter-Racial NGO Council (Mirac), here.

Zulkifli expressed Perkasa's support to defend Mohamad Nasir.

Meanwhile, chairman of the MIC Youth Education Bureau, P. Punithan, in a statement, urged all quarters not to turn the matter into a racial issue, saying it could undermine the existing racial unity.