An ex-PKR leader and MIC's information chief disagree with PKR vice-president N Surendran's claim that BN is to be blamed for marginalising the community.
PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Rakyat states do not need financial aid from the federal government to resolve the Indian community’s woes, said former PKR leader N Gobalakrishnan.
“Poverty among Indians can be resolved by using the Land Act itself,” the Padang Serai MP told FMT.
He was responding to PKR vice-president N Surendran who blamed Barisan Nasional for the Indian community’s problems.
“It is very unbecoming for a senior PKR leader to blame BN for this,” said Gobalakrishnan.
Using the Coalfield estate issue as an example, he said the federal government had provided RM30,000 for the estate workers but there was nothing forthcoming from the Selangor government even though the estate was within Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim’s Ijok state constituency.
Gobalakrishnan also blamed Khalid for not providing land for the Coalfield estate workers.
Don’t play blame game
Meanwhile, MIC information chief S Murugessan called on PKR to stop playing the blame game and concentrate on providing for the people instead.
He said Surendran was just attempting to respond to DAP vice chairman M Kulasegaran who warned that Pakatan should forget about capturing Putrajaya if did not arrest the declining support among the Malay and Indian communities.
Murugesan said that even Hindraf Makkal Sakti leader P Uthayakumar had dismissed Pakatan’s track record of serving the Indians as being worse than BN’s.
PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Rakyat states do not need financial aid from the federal government to resolve the Indian community’s woes, said former PKR leader N Gobalakrishnan.“Poverty among Indians can be resolved by using the Land Act itself,” the Padang Serai MP told FMT.
He was responding to PKR vice-president N Surendran who blamed Barisan Nasional for the Indian community’s problems.
“It is very unbecoming for a senior PKR leader to blame BN for this,” said Gobalakrishnan.
Using the Coalfield estate issue as an example, he said the federal government had provided RM30,000 for the estate workers but there was nothing forthcoming from the Selangor government even though the estate was within Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim’s Ijok state constituency.
Gobalakrishnan also blamed Khalid for not providing land for the Coalfield estate workers.
Don’t play blame game
Meanwhile, MIC information chief S Murugessan called on PKR to stop playing the blame game and concentrate on providing for the people instead.
He said Surendran was just attempting to respond to DAP vice chairman M Kulasegaran who warned that Pakatan should forget about capturing Putrajaya if did not arrest the declining support among the Malay and Indian communities.
Murugesan said that even Hindraf Makkal Sakti leader P Uthayakumar had dismissed Pakatan’s track record of serving the Indians as being worse than BN’s.
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