Former Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Agriculture & Agro-Based Industries Minister should have thought about his call to boycott Chinese traders before voicing it out.
"He probably did not think it through, and might not have made the statement, otherwise. This is a negative way of trying to solve the problem. Find out why prices have gone-up. It is not a question of Chinese or Malay (traders), it is an issue of goods and prices, and why the reduction in petrol prices is not translating into lower prices of goods. While Chinese made up most of the traders in the nation, the prices of goods sold by Malay and Indian traders had also gone up".