Education minister Fadhlina Sidek said the ministry is open to the suggestion, but stressed that it must undergo the necessary processes, Bernama reported.

“We have a procedure, and so far, I don’t see it as a difficult matter. We are always open to listening to all perspectives.

“We take note of the proposal to revert the school’s name. Suggestions have been made, and we will listen and consider them,” she told reporters after the Khazanah Reformasi Walk in Seberang Jaya today.

Yesterday, Barisan Nasional chairman Ahmad Zahid Hamidi urged the ministry to reinstate the original name of the school.

Zahid, who is also a deputy prime minister, said he would raise the matter in a Cabinet meeting.

MCA president Wee Ka Siong earlier said the school’s original name, which honours MCA founder Omar Ong Yoke Lin, had been approved by former education minister Mahdzir Khalid in 2017.

Wee said he discovered that the name had been changed following a groundbreaking ceremony for SJKC Gamuda Cove’s construction last Wednesday.

He said Ong was a founding member of MCA, a prominent figure in Malaysia’s independence movement, and a minister in former prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman’s Cabinet.

Ong, who converted to Islam in 1961, died on July 1, 2010 at the age of 92.