Fight for our country, not knock it down – PM

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak yesterday reminded Malaysians that they should fight for the country and never ever knock it down.

He said as Malaysians, everyone should also work together to make the nation stronger and even greater in the future.

“This is our country, we are born here. We are true Malaysians, we will fight for Malaysia.

“We should never ever knock down Malaysia, because we have a chance to make it even stronger and even better in future,” he said when launching the National Transformation 2050 (TN50) logo and the second phase of the TN50 Dialogue here.

Also present were Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar and Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa.

Najib said that with Malaysia’s economy now standing at RM1.3 trillion, he envisioned that it will increase to RM2 trillion by 2025, making Malaysia among the top 20 nations by then.

On TN50, he said the aspiration is truly a movement by the people for the people via the bottom-up approach, adding that it is also a movement started by the young people, who will be the leaders of tomorrow.

“I want us to think about where we want to go, so we define our future direction, the future that we want. And it is our job to deliver the future that we want,” he told the more than 300 youths gathered at the event.

Najib added that the government will continue to carry out engagements with the grassroots.

He said engagements with the people will continue to be carried out to get inputs which later will be translated into a national blueprint.

The TN50, which was launched on January this year, is a follow up on the 2020 vision which seeks to attain developed nation status for Malaysia, and is aimed at bringing about the next quantum leap of growth.