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Zahid's daughter riled by goads to take up dad's challenge
Published:  Feb 15, 2016 5:26 PM
Updated: Feb 17, 2016 5:57 AM

Deputy prime minister's daughter Nurulhidayah Ahmad Zahid is not happy with being goaded to take up her father's challenge for Malaysian youths to do the low-paying blue collar jobs now done by migrant workers.

Responding to a posting on popular parody account 'Amran Fans', Nurulhidayah said the account administrator and others who commented on the post would have to seek forgiveness from her in the afterlife.

"It's fun reading these comments. Great. They reflect your brain cells which don't really connect," she quipped on her Instagram account @deltanovzulu.

"I will wait for you all to look for me on the Plains of Mashar.

"Even if we don't know each other in this world, those who create and spread slander will get to know me on the Plains of Mashar," she said.

The Plains of Mashar in the Quran refers to the place where all of creation is gathered on judgment day.

'Amran Fans' had earlier suggested that Nurulhidayah work as a salesperson, supermarket cashier or waitress in taking up her father Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's challenge.

"It is only then that we can tell if Malaysians are lazy as claimed.

"But no, (the authorities) conduct their own research and then say we need to bring in 1.5 million Bangladeshis because Malaysians are lazy," the 'Amran Fans' post reads.

Zahid yesterday challenged Malaysians to take up jobs now filled by foreign workers if they do not want a further influx of migrants.

This is after Putrajaya and Dhaka signed a memorandum of agreement to allow even more general workers from Bangladesh into Malaysia.

There are 1.5 million workers on Bangladesh's recruitment database approved to apply for work in Malaysia.

Critics argue that Malaysians are loath to do the jobs taken up by migrants because of low wages and poor work conditions.

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