KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 9, 2008) : Gerakan should increase the number of non-Chinese delegates to its party polls by at least 30% to reflect the political party's multi-racial image, said Kuala Lumpur Gerakan division assistant secretary, K.K. Supramaniam.
"The representation of the non-Chinese delegates in the party does not project Gerakan as a multi-racial party. We have to organise programmes to attract non-Chinese members," he told reporters after the launch of a Gerakan booklet titled 'Road Map to Political Recovery' here today.
Supramaniam, one of the 40 candidates vying for a seat on the the party's Central Committee. said out of 2,085 delegates, there were only 98 non-Chinese delegates which was hardly 4.8%.
"We can only call Gerakan as a truly multi-racial party when there are more non-Chinese delegates," he said.
Earlier this month, Dr Asharuddin Ahmad, 49, the Kuala Selangor Gerakan division secretary, became the first Malay candidate to contest a high post, that of a vice-president, in the Chinese-dominated party, after Gerakan founder and first party president Dr Syed Husin Al-Alatas. -- BERNAMA
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