Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Mansor agrees with the party's Youth chief that the quota system favouring Malays in various policies in an insult to the community.

However, Tengku Adnan's reasoning for backing Khairy differs from the youth and sports minister's rationale that the quotas are keeping the Malays on crutches.

"I am with Khairy. Why do we have a 30 percent quota? If we go by demographics, Malays and bumiputera make up 50 to 60 percent of the demographics, but most people don't realise that we are being moderate," he said...