PARLIAMENT | Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, Zamri Vinoth and S Chandrasegaran. These three names rang out in the Dewan Rakyat as DAP lawmaker RSN Rayer accused them of stoking racial sentiments.

Ridhuan is an academic, Zamri a Muslim preacher, while Chandrasegaran, better known as Cikgu Chandra, is a social media personality who recently converted to Islam.

He mentioned the late PAS spiritual leader Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, whom he regards as his “idol”; the late DAP chairperson Karpal Singh, whose portrait graces the background of his WhatsApp profile; and former DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang.

The Jelutong MP was making a case for Putrajaya to publish books, magazines and articles that would educate the younger generation on the importance of national unity, offering them a different set of role models amid what he sees as the rise of racial rhetoric.