Race-based poverty aid: Anwar says dated mentality has no place in Harapan

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In what appears to be a veiled dig at former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, PKR president Anwar Ibrahim has said that those with dated mentality on race-based poverty aid should not be part of Pakatan Harapan.  Anwar was explaining that they should approach poverty as a human issue rather than a race-based one because any initiative to eradicate it would surely benefit the majority which comprises the Malays and the bumiputera. “We know that 70 percent of the Malays and bumiputera are in the B40 but what is wrong with using the approach that those who are poor are poor, that those who are poor are all humans? “If there is a programme to eradicate poverty, then it will surely benefit the majority which is the Malays and the bumiputera, but it will not discriminate or insult any race […] because this goes against our conscience as humans and myself, as a Muslim, will not allow…