AYER Hitam MP Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong of the MCA wants the Pakatan Harapan government to keep its promise to provide allocations to Chinese new villages.

He said when Pakatan was the opposition party, it had made many promises regarding Chinese new villages in alternative budgets.

“They said they would give RM100,000 to each village, with allocations in the millions. But what is happening now?

“Since I am no longer a minister, all the villages have not received their allocations,” he said in his speech during the debate on the 11th Malaysia Plan.

He also chided the Pakatan government for not going ahead with the construction of two mosques in his constituency although allocations were approved by the previous Barisan Nasional government.

“Although I’m not a Muslim, I feel sad for the Muslims in my constituency. Why must they be victimised just because Barisan won in that area? That is not right. It is a sin,” he said.

Dr Wee also took a swipe at the government’s proposals to revive the crooked bridge to Singapore and the third national car.

“When the crooked bridge was discussed before this, Iskandar Puteri (Lim Kit Siang) made so much noise. But now he is silent,” he said.

Last week, Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Osman Sapian said the state government would be having a meeting with the Singapore government on the possibility of reviving the “crooked bridge” project linking Johor and Singapore.

Osman said the meeting, which would be held either on Oct 27 or Oct 28 in Singapore, would be attended by Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali.

-The Star-