Socialist Progressive Front’s Teh Yee Cheu (right) and Chua Cheong Wee talking to a trader at the Jalan Sungai area in Batu Ferringhi.

GEORGE TOWN: A pressure group here has questioned the move to give a new RM9 million market in Batu Ferringhi built by the Penang Island City Council (MBPP) to a private party to be operated.

The Socialist Progressive Front’s Teh Yee Cheu said privatising the market was a form of dereliction of duty as the market ought to be run by the council since it was funded by ratepayers.