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Stop tarnishing government's image, IPF tells Waytha
The Indian Progressive Front (IPF) called on former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department P. Waytha Moorthy to stop issuing statements that could tarnish the image of the government and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
IPF President Datuk M. Sambanthan said Waytha’s call for Najib to step down showed that the Hindraf chairman was trying to conceal his own failures while he was Deputy Minister.
“I would also like to refute Waytha’s claims that the government had failed to help the Indian community because so far the government has provided various forms of assistance to the Indian community.
“The latest was Najib’s announcement to allocate RM100 million annually to help Tamil schools,” he said when met at Wisma Bernama, here, on Tuesday.
Sambanthan was commenting on statements issued by Waytha that the government under Najib’s leadership had failed to fulfill promises made to the Indian community.
Waytha had accused Najib of cheating the Indian community and failing to honour his promises to them.
The IPF leader also chided Waytha for resigning from his posts, and his claims that he could not meet Najib and that his proposals for the betterment of the Indian community were not received.
“By right, as a Deputy Minister, he should represent the Indian community in the government and call upon all Indian community leaders to discuss programmes which could benefit the community.
“But for the 9 months that he was the Deputy Minister, he had never called the Indian leaders and in fact had kept away from us. That was not right.”
Sambanthan hoped the Indian community would not be influenced by Waytha’s claims to run down the government for his own benefit.
Last Monday, Waytha resigned as the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department as well as the post of Senator claiming the government had not honoured the terms of an agreement signed with Najib’s administration to bring about socio-economic reforms for the Indian poor.
