By Stephanie Sta Maria - Free Malaysia TodayKUALA LUMPUR: The verbal spat between UmnoYouth chief Khairy Jamaluddin and Perkasa boss Ibrahim Ali continued today with the conferring of condescending titles on each other.
In a Twitter posting, the Oxford-trained Khairy had labelled Ibrahim a “jaguh kampung (village champion) in a globalised world whose time is up”.
He also described the outspoken independent Pasir Mas MP as an “obstacle” to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's 1Malaysia campaign.
In retaliation, Ibrahim claimed that Khairy's meteoric rise was due to his father-in-law, former premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's influence.
“I feel proud to be called jaguh kampung,” he told FMT.
“At least I am close to nature, meaning 'barang asli'. Jaguh bandar or Oxford means nothing to me if your rise and wealth is because of your father-in-law's position or because of money politics.
“I am like a bull fighter. Whatever comes in front of me which is not right, I will wallop,” he said.
'He's not a Rembau voter'
Khairy had criticised Ibrahim following the latter's demand that the Rembau MP vacate his post.
In his posting, Khairy said Ibrahim has no grounds to make such a call. “He's not a Rembau voter or a member of Umno. He has no business telling me to resign.”
The two began locking horns when Khairy defended MCA Youth chief Wee Ka Siong who came under attack from Ibrahim.
The Perkasa boss went on the offensive against Wee, who is also deputy education minister, for asking if the government would consider scrapping Mara scholarships meant for the Bumiputera following its plan to do away with Public Service Department scholarships for the other races.
Ibrahim considered this a challenge to Malay rights, while Khairy accused the former of making a “ridiculous” fuss over nothing to seek cheap publicity.
Wee also denied Ibrahim's claim, saying that he never intended to question Malay rights and demanded that the Perkasa chief stop “talking rubbish”.
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