PKR student wing vice-chief quits over citizenship amendments

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Mahasiswa Keadilan Malaysia vice-chief Yap Xiang says he submitted his letter of resignation to the party shortly after the amendments were approved.  Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2024/10/18/pkr-student-wing-vice-chief-quits-over-citizenship-amendments/  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTnews #PKR #YapXiang

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00:00The Vice-Chief of PKR's student wing, Mahasiswa Keadilan Malaysia, has resigned from the party

00:08after the Dewan Rakyat passed controversial amendments to the constitution's citizenship

00:13provisions.

00:14In a post on X this evening, Mahasiswa Keadilan Malaysia Vice-Chief Yap Siang said he had

00:19submitted his resignation letter shortly after the amendments were approved.

00:24In later posts, he slammed the whole ministry over its engagement sessions on the constitutional

00:29amendment bill, saying it was nothing more than to meet the basic requirement of consulting

00:33stakeholders.

00:35He had attended the sessions representing the wing.

00:38However, he said when he asked questions during the sessions, he was met with responses saying

00:43there are no stateless orang asli anymore, just migrants pretending to be stateless.

00:48The Constitution Amendment Bill 2024, which will next be brought to the Dewan Negara,

00:53aims to grant citizenship to overseas-born children of Malaysian women.

00:57The bill, criticized by groups from Sabah and Sarawak, included a proposal to remove

01:01automatic citizenship for children born to Malaysian permanent residents.

01:06Critics argue this would worsen the statelessness issue in Sabah and limit access to education,

01:11healthcare and employment.

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