Is it Constitutional, Sir?

div style="text-align: justify;"blockquotespan style="font-size:180%;"Merit-based Scholarship. /spanThe Prime Minister's proposal to introduce a "merit-based" scholarship system where "only the best, irrespective of race" will be granted JPA scholarships from next year may not be constitutional, or so says a pro-Najib blogger.br /br /In his posting span style="font-weight: bold;"Is the Merit-based Scholarship Constitutional?/span, Zakhir Mohamad, a life member of Umno, said Najib Razak can't implement the proposal unilaterally.br /br /This is because, provision for scholarships has been enshrined in the Federal Constitution solely for the Bumiputras only, he wrote. span style="font-style: italic;""When scholarships are being dished out based on merit, that means Malay privileges as provided in the Federal Constitution inadvertently has been withdrawn."/spanbr /br /The blogger also said Najib will need to refer the proposal to the Malay Rulers and should have gone to the party for feedback. Read more, a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bigdogdotcom.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/is-the-merit-based-scholarship-constitutional/"span style="font-style: italic;"h e r e./span/abr /br /Read Bernama's report on the proposed scholarship, a href="http://rockybru2.blogspot.com/2009/06/najib-proposes-merit-based-scholarship.html"here./abr //blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28452020-8507565269314431197?l=rockybru.com.my'//div