Countering Khairy's call that he has been ineffective and money-minded, Waythamoorthy said he quit from his government posts because Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has been nonchalant about a special unit he wanted to address issues of the Indian Malaysian poor.
"Khairy's irrational defence of his boss is immature and imprudent," Waythamoorthy said in a press statement today."Will Khairy be able to perform if his ministry’s budget is taken away and he is expected to function as the youth and sports minister?"
The Persatuan Hindraf Malaysia leader resigned from his government posts last week and called Najib a liar for not fulfilling the memorandum ofm understanding signed with the BN, just before last year’s general election.
The pact earned Waythamoorthy a senatorship and a post of deputy minister, supposedly to take charge of issues affecting the Indian Malaysian community, after the BN was returned to federal power.
'No political will on PM's part'
During his short stint, Waythamoorthy said, Najib had at first agreed to set up a special unit with at least 50 members to help the poor.
"The unit would be given a special budget, with autonomy to enable it to carry out its tasks in a focused and targeted manner," Waythamoorthy said.
"However, after eight months of persuading him to fulfil his above commitments, the PM did not do anything proactive to make the unit and budget a reality. It became very clear to me there was no political will on his part."
He added that the special unit is needed because the other ministries had failed in this area.
For example, the Education Ministry did not provide Tamil schools with proper infrastructure and lacked scholarships and placements for Indian Malaysians in public universities.
The Agriculture Ministry too failed to provide alternatives for displaced plantation workers, while government agencies and state governments didn’t provide land aid for the displaced, long-serving estate workers.
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