Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Perikatan Nasional (PN) on a strategic move to attract Saravanan to secure Indian votes?





Perikatan Nasional (PN) on a strategic move to attract Saravanan to secure Indian votes?





Letter to editor

POLITICAL observers feel that the Perikatan Nasional (PN) opposition front is formulating various strategies to attract an influential Indian leader from the Indian community to garner support for PN.

Such was the gist of an opinion editorial that appears in today’s Malaysian Nanban, the country’s largest circulated Tamil daily, which among others, contended that PN has embarked on a mission to woo non-Malay to fortify the coalition and to break the Pakatan Harapan-Barisan Nasional (PH-BN) dominance.

As it is, the Malaysian Indian People’s party (MIPP) is already a PN coalition member. Currently MIPP is headed by former Selangor MIC Youth chief P. Punithan.

In order to further strengthen the PN coalition and to give a greater recognition to PN alliance, the coalition is said to be seriously looking for an influential and credible leader from the Indian community.
MIC deputy president Datuk Seri M. Saravanan


As such, speculation is rife that PN is in the midst of strategising to attract MIC deputy president and former human resources minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan to strengthen the coalition.

Through hard work and perseverance, the Tapah MP who is the only MIC representative in the Dewan Rakyat has risen up the ranks within the Barisan Nasional (BN) component party. His blazing oratory skills could be the reason why PN seems to be interested in him.

Right now, PN which consists of Bersatu, PAS, Gerakan (aside from MIPP) is widely perceived to be a Malay-Muslim coalition which gives the presumption that PN is not multi-racial enough.

It’s quite obvious in a way that that the PH-BN alliance has failed to recognise the capable leadership of Saravanan, hence an important pull factor for PN to attract Saravanan to join the coalition instead. – Nov 19, 2024



Saranya
Old Klang Road
Kuala Lumpur

No comments:

Post a Comment