In what appears to be a veiled dig at former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, PKR president Anwar Ibrahim has said that those with dated mentality on race-based poverty aid should not be part of Pakatan Harapan.

Anwar was explaining that they should approach poverty as a human issue rather than a race-based one because any initiative to eradicate it would surely benefit the majority which comprises the Malays and the bumiputera.