Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali has called for a review on the quota for Indian cabinet members, saying that Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad's current lineup had "too many (of them)".

He said having four ministers and one deputy minister was not in tandem with the fact that Indian Malaysians make up just seven percent of the population in the country.

"Now there are four ministers and a deputy minister (who are Indian Malaysian), so five [...] There are just seven percent Indian (Malaysians), so how can there be four?...