Kula: PH committed to empowering Indians

MELAKA: The government is committed to efforts to empower the Indian community, especially in education, in line with the promises made by Pakatan Harapan in its 14th General Election (GE14) manifesto.

Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran said this included providing quality education facilities to relevant groups, including “complete and comfortable” schools.

He said there were 525 Tamil schools in the country and the government would proceed with the construction of six national type Tamil schools (SJKT), carried out since last year.

“I had raised this issue at a cabinet meeting and they (ministers) agree that the construction of SJK schools, whether Tamil or Chinese, will be completed,” he said after a meeting with the Indian community at the Melaka International Trade Centre on Saturday night.

Present were state Unity, Human Resource, Non-Governmental Organisations and Consumer Affairs Committee chairman G. Saminathan and Malaysian Associated Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry deputy president Datuk R. Rajasekharan.

Kulasegaran said he was confident that the Indian community in Sungai Kandis constituency would continue supporting and voting for the PH candidate in the by-election on Aug 4.

“This confidence is based on more than 80 per cent of Indians showing support for PH in GE14,” said Kulasegaran, who is also DAP vice-chairman.