Recalling the past: Salleh remembering that it was a challenge drafting the Rukunegara just after the racial riots in 1969. He is part of the documentary titled ‘Rukun Negara: A Nation United’. — Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR: The Rukunegara was not plucked from the air, declared Tun Dr Salleh Abas, one of the elders who helped draft the National Philosophy in 1970.
“All in the (Federal) Constitution; nothing new taken and nothing was plucked from the air,” he said in an interview with Bernama TV in a documentary titled Rukun Negara: A Nation United, which will be aired on TV from Aug 31 to Sept 19.
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