Former MP Ong Kian Ming lauded student Nahvin Muthusamy for highlighting the meritocracy issue at a student award ceremony, saying that he was brave to use the platform to address such topics.

Ong, who is now the Philosophy Politics and Economics programme director at Taylor's University, said that Nahvin must have known about the sensitive nature of what he brought up when talking about “unfair” quota systems “and yet he still went on to say what he said”...