Prime minister-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim today said that he would not be using the Malay agenda to address poverty in the country.

Instead, the PKR president said, the efforts should be in the nationalistic narrative which he believes is more attractive and indisputable.

"My approach is different. Sometimes my Malay comrades are not comfortable when I say that I am not using the Malay agenda but the agenda of eradicating poverty.

"Because I have seen myself, the Malay villages where the majority are poor. I had also seen poor (households) in Chinese villages, Indian estates and the rural areas of Sabah and Sarawak, which are also in dire condition...