Umno supreme council member Ismail Sabri Yaakob said opposition parties should act as a "check and balance" to ensure the government elected by the people carried out its responsibility well.   

NONE Unfortunately, what is happening now is that the opposition is playing a detractor's role to bring chaos to the country's harmony, he said.  

"Now, the nation's opposition prefer to spread lies even though the government's efforts are for the good of the people, especially to deal with the problem of increasing prices of goods and to curb inflation," he said.  

Ismail Sabri, Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Minister, was speaking at a meet the people session at the Mengkarak Station community hall, near here.

"The Barisan Nasional government has made various efforts to ease the people's burden but the opposition only maligns whatever is done," he added.

"To demolish or destroy racial unity and cooperation is very easy but we took a long time to build it and had to pay a high price for it," he said.  

- Bernama