Waytha Moorthy aims to strengthen racial unity

PUTRAJAYA: Issues of racial unity in Sabah, Sarawak, as well as in the peninsula will be among the main focus of Senator P. Waytha Moorthy, the newly-appointed Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of national unity and social well-being.
"Public perception (on racial unity) in the peninsula is usually focused on the three main races, namely the Malays, the Chinese and the Indians, and they only know a little about the Ibans and Kadazans even though there are many other races and tribes across the country. This is because the knowledge (about the other races) has always been deemed unimportant.
"As such, in the spirit of the New Malaysia, that perception must be changed and everyone must learn to understand the cultures and lifestyle of the multiracial and multireligious society in Malaysia," he told a press conference after being briefed on the roles and functions of the National Unity and Integration Department here.
Waytha Moorthy said the ministerial post he now held through his senatorship gives him three years to strengthen racial unity and harmony in Malaysia. — Bernama