A former minister who served under former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has posited that the nonagenarian's latest racist attack on Indians was intentional and meant to gain political support.

This is after Mahathir and his Pejuang party suffered a total wipeout in the last general election, said former human resources minister M Kulasegaran.

"What Mahathir intends to do is simple. First, he aims to...