'Indian stateless among Pakatan's top priorities'

Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has promised to make resolving the stateless Indians issue among the government’s top priorities if the Pakatan Rakyat was voted into power.

Addressing a 1,000-strong crowd at the Indraf 2.0 rally this afternoon, he said the aspiration to obtain citizenship from those who were locally born and raised is a “legitimate expectation”.

He repeated his statement earlier today in Klang that this is “a national problem” and required the government to utilise its machinery to tackle it.

“(If we ever come to power), I will ask the National Registration Department (NRD) to go to the estates in Sungai Siput, don’t wait the people to come to your office,” he told a cheering crowd.

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