Rembau MP Khairy Jamaluddin has urged Umno leaders to go down to their respective constituencies to talk to groups of people who did not get benefits from Pakatan Harapan's Budget 2019.

These could include university students regarding the Higher National Education Fund (PTPTN), as well as fishermen and farmers for lack of aid during the monsoon season, he said.

"Maybe, Shamsul (Anuar Nasarah, who is former PTPTN chairperson) can go and meet university students and discuss the current situation.

"Other Umno leaders can meet fishermen and farmers and instigate them to hold pickets for not being given assistance during the monsoon season in the Harapan budget," Khairy told a dialogue session at Putra World Trade Centre tonight.

According to Khairy, Umno leaders are doing well as the opposition in Dewan Rakyat and said this should also be reflected outside the House, in fighting for the people's rights.

"(We should) send our MPs, leaders to the groups affected and we instigate them towards betterment because we want to help them, that's the way.

"The strategy of war in politics has also been practised outside the Parliament. I hope Umno will see to this," he said.

In its budget, Harapan did not announce any special incentives for farmers, fishermen, livestock rearers and rubber tappers. 

'FundMyHome is someone else's home'

Meanwhile, on the FundMyHome home-ownership programme announced by Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng in the budget, Khairy said it was a scheme that benefits developers and investors, and not house buyers. 

"The scheme says that if one can fork out 20 percent of the house price, then they can stay there for five years. 

"We will not own the place. Eighty percent of the house will be owned by investors that we don't even know who," he said. 

Under the FundMyHome, house buyers have to fork out 20 percent of the property price plus fees such as legal fees – whether out of the pocket or through a five-year bank loan.

The remaining 80 percent would be funded by various investors. Home buyers can also opt for drawing from their Employees Provident Fund (EPF) account.

Thus, Khairy questioned who the housing programme is aimed to benefit. 

"Who is it for? It is for developers, for rich people who invest, and not for poor people, those with low incomes, or youth who want to buy to stay.

"I wish to remind the government that there are youngsters out there who cannot even fork out the 10 percent deposit (to buy a house), so where are they going to look for the 20 percent?"

"FundMyHome is not MyHome. Twenty percent is not MyHome, it is somebody else's home," he quipped, to applause from the crowd.