“It felt less like a discussion and more like stepping into an inferno.”

- former DAP MP Charles Santiago

COMMENT | When ex-MP Charles Santiago described his meeting with Indian community leaders in Johor as walking into an inferno, I knew what he meant.

I would also say it is not confined to Johor alone. Anecdotally speaking, community leaders and organisers I have been in contact with are exhibiting the same kind of anger towards Madani, which includes DAP.

Much has been made about the failed strategy of using the possible release of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak as a vote-getter in Johor.

The fact is that the working-class Indians and activists I speak to inform me that this has zero impact.

There is a significant percentage of...