View on civil service reforms are my own - Ramasamy

Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy today said his views on reforms in the civil service do not reflect the overall position taken by the DAP or its leaders.

Taking to Facebook, Ramasamy (above) also reiterated that his call for reforms in the public service should not be equated to "breaking the monopoly of the Malays" as has been reported.

"My proposal for reforms was in the spirit of bringing about meaningful changes to the practice of governance. That is all," said Ramasamy.

Yesterday, a Penang PKR Youth leader urged the DAP-led state government to sack Ramasamy over his remarks.

However, the statement by Penang PKR Youth information chief Abshar Nurasyra was no longer available on his Facebook page as of this morning.

Amanah central committee member Mohd Sany Hamzan also called for DAP to sack Ramasamy from the deputy chief minister post, stressing that the party is often put in awkward positions over such unsolicited remarks.

On that note, Ramasamy also claimed his initial remarks were twisted by certain publications, leading to further misinterpretations from "publicity-seeking politicians" from Pakatan Harapan component parties.

"These politicians have not referred to my original publication.

"I wanted reforms in the public service as suggested earlier by Sarawak Premier Abang Johari (Openg) and the G25 spokesperson, Noor Faridah Ariffin.

"However, the publicity-seeking politicians in some of the Harapan component parties, unfortunately, sought to reinterpret the second-hand news in the media - to give a racial slant to my argument for a reform in the civil service," he said.

On Tuesday, Abang Johari reportedly expressed hope that a proposed upgraded salary scheme will attract more Sarawakians, including from the Chinese community, to join the state’s civil service.

He also reportedly admitted that civil servants’ salaries were currently too low and indicated plans by the Sarawak state government to upgrade the scheme.

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