COMMENT | Let courts resolve UiTM controversy

COMMENT | The proper way to resolve the UiTM controversy is to let the court decide whether the move by the university to bar non-Malays from gaining admission into its “sacred” ground is constitutional.

Opponents and proponents have cited the Federal Constitution to buttress their respective arguments and both sides are convinced that their interpretation of the Constitution is correct.

They highlighted Article 153, with one group interpreting it according to its own understanding of the provision and the other based on its own version of what it really means. Who is right?

UiTM academics contend that the particular article clearly meant that only bumiputera students are allowed to enrol in the university. They also singled out the UiTM Act 1976, which they posit is in line with the Federal Constitution.