Will former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad ever be happy with any of his successors even if one was his own son, PPP president M Kayveas wants to know.

"Mahathir said Pak Lah (Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) was no good, then they changed (the prime minister) to Najib (Abdul Razak) and now Mahathir says Najib is no good.

"Tomorrow, you put Muhyiddin (Yassin, as PM), Mahathir will say Muhyiddin is no good. Another day you put Hishammuddin (Hussein), Mahathir will say no good.

"One day Mukhriz is going to be PM. What is Mahathir going to say? No good?" Kayveas  ( left in photo ) asked.

He added that Mahathir should tell the BN component parties why he is gunning for Najib so that they can get Najib to respond appropriately.

During a pre-recorded television interview last night, Najib did not touch on most of the concerns raised by Mahathir, earning the prime minister a fresh round of brickbats.

Speaking to reporters at PPP's 62nd anniversary celebration at its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Kayveas said changing prime ministers would not solve any of the country's problems.

He pointed out the current problems now were ghosts of the pasts, too.

Not helping at all

"All the problems we have been plugging before, 20 years ago, are slowly being unplugged now... the problems carried forward from before, which have been held up, bottled up and covered up are coming up slowly," he said.

Kayveas mused that if the people do want to change the prime minister, then he was willing to take up the job.

"If you want to change prime minister, I want to be PM. For six months I want to be PM," he said.

On a more serious note, the PPP president said only the rich were not satisfied with how things were in the country.

"Who is complaining? The person who gets a good salary? The person who leaves after 4 O'clock (and sits in the bar) for happy hours, having his beer and the next day, he is the one who is complaining.

"The people who have everything are complaining (and they) are not helping the people on the ground," he said.

On the other hand, he said, the government has been doing its best to help the poor, including via the 1Malaysia People's Aid (BR1M) scheme.

"The eight million people who receive BR1M are so happy [...] even my mother who receives BR1M is so happy," Kayveas said.