Calling themselves “Gelombang Saksama” (Equality Wave), a coalition of 19 Indian NGOs met Bersama co-leaders Rafizi Ramli and Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad to stress the need for the party to make the Indian community’s interests an integral part of its political agenda.

The coalition's coordinator and former DAP MP Charles Santiago described yesterday's meeting as the coalition’s first engagement with Bersama to discuss the Indian community’s future and its place in Malaysia’s political and economic landscape.

“The meeting stressed that at 6.5 percent of Malaysia’s population...