During his Budget 2027 speech, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim touted the government’s Bandar Madani Bukit Jalil as an integrated development and a “residential area for the rakyat”.

However, a group of locals in Bukit Jalil who turned up to protest the project outside Parliament today want the 17,000-unit project scrapped.

They argued that the project would place additional pressure on an area already grappling with overdevelopment, traffic congestion and inadequate public facilities.

“We are not opposing development there, but we are objecting because this is a high-density development that does not take into account the current situation on the ground,” residents’ protest committee chairperson Zainuddin Zainal said.