Aminolhuda Hassan (PH-Sri Gading) said that many hotels told him their rooms were fully booked when he recently attempted to book a room in Kuala Lumpur.

Responding to opposition leader Hamzah Zainudin’s claims that the government has failed to address the people’s issues, Aminolhuda said that these days, no one has had to wave a white flag due to insufficient food, as people had done during the previous administration.

“Rice may be insufficient, but the people continue to progress. If we enter a hotel and it’s full, it shows that the people are happy and can enjoy themselves.

“Many people are enjoying the benefits provided by the government,” he said when debating the royal address in the Dewan Rakyat.

In 2021, the “#BenderaPutih (#WhiteFlag) campaign was initiated by community members to help those in desperate need of food and assistance amid the worsening Covid-19 health and economic crisis.

The campaign went viral on social media, encouraging people struggling financially to reach out for help by displaying white flags in front of their homes.

Aminolhuda said Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s administration had its finger on the pulse of the nation. The inflation and corruption index had also shown improvement, he added.

He said the people would soon feel the impact and benefit from the investments totalling RM329.5 billion last year.

On Friday, chief statistician Uzir Mahidin said Malaysia’s headline inflation remained at 1.5% in January, with the consumer price index at 131.4 points against 129.5 a year earlier.

In January, Malaysia’s score in Transparency International’s annual corruption perception index rebounded to 50 points in 2023 from 47 points in 2022.