‘Queen E’s dress sense nothing to do with Bersih’
Subang MP Sivarasa’s connection between Queen Elizabeth and Bersih 2.0 was ridiculed in the Dewan Rakyat today.
(Free Malaysia Today) – Queen Elizabeth II’s yellow dress had nothing to do with her support for the Bersih (Coalition for Free and Fair Elections) movement.
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Kohilan Pillay claimed that the Queen’s yellow dress choice was not to snub Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak when she received him at Buckingham Palace on July 14.
“The Queen’s choice of dress for official occasions during spring and summer in the United Kingdom (UK), and her foreign visits are in soft and bright colours,” he told the Dewan Rakyat today.
The deputy minister also said that the Queen also had been known to wear yellow in many occasions, including to her grandson’s – Prince William- wedding’s with Kate Middleton earlier this year.
He was responding to a question raised by PKR’s Subang MP R Sivarasa, who asked if the Queen’s dress choice would affect the Malaysia’s relationship with the UK.
Sivarasa was referring to the aftermath of the July 9 Bersih protests. With Bersih’s official colour being yellow, many wondered if Queen Elizabeth’s golden dress five days later was in support of the KL demonstrations.
He claimed that the government should not take the Queen’s dress choice lightly, adding that Putrajaya should have looked further into why the Queen chose yellow that day.
Although Sivarasa did not explicitly mention Bersih, Kohilan nevertheless appeared amused and ridiculed the PKR MP’s query.
