COMMENT | Hyperbole aside, Suaram is right

“Anwar is a better choice compared to the previous PM because of his reform agenda and background. But with that baggage, if he fails to deliver, he will be the worst prime minister. Because the previous prime minister did not promise much in terms of reform and all that.”

- Suaram executive director Sevan Doraisamy

COMMENT | Human rights group Suaram is on point when it reminds this government and this particular prime minister that reforms that were promised are long overdue in this country.

Also on point is the fact that this unity government has former activists and outspoken political operatives in positions of influence who for obvious reasons have gone silent in their clarion calls for reform.

Instead of focusing on the hyperbole that Sevan Doraisamy, unfortunately, chose to engage in and make excuses for this government, Pakatan Harapan supporters should be supportive of any rejoinders for reform instead of shooting the messenger.

Anwar Ibrahim shrewdly chose the Icerd (International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) debacle as a means to short-circuit Suaram’s rejoinder to the government, deliberately missing the point that the systemic reforms Suaram talked about were old talking points for Harapan political operatives...