'Khaled must quit if he ordered Unisel loan freeze'

PKR director of strategy Rafizi Ramli today said that Higher Education Minister Khaled Nordin has to resign from his post if he had instructed the National Higher Education Fund (PTPTN) to halt giving loans to Universiti Selangor (Unisel) students. 

At a press conference today, he said that this is because such an act smells of “vindictive” politics, which is unacceptable for a minister of Khaled’s ranking. 

“Here we have a minister who, when a decision was quietly taken to stop loans to (a) thousand students, instead of showing concern for the welfare of the students, was celebrating and gloating about it. He was clearly vindictive,” he said.

Khaled yesterday tweeted that if students cannot pay fees due to absence of the loans, then Unisel should waive the fees and fulfill Pakatan Rakyat’s free education proposal. 

Malaysiakini had reported that students enrolling at the Selangor government-owned university in April found that they could not apply for PTPTN loans due to a “temporary halt”. 

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