Police merely advised to remove decorations to de-escalate situation - Teo

The police did not order but merely advised SMK Pusat Bandar Puchong 1 to remove the Chinese New Year decorations, said Deputy Education Minister Teo Nie Ching.

Teo (photo, centre) added that the police advice was meant to de-escalate the situation after Parti Bumiputera Perkasa Malaysia (Putra) vice-president Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz wrote a letter to the school claiming that the decorations were contravening the Federal Constitution for having religious connotations...