Rosmah holds the responsibility as the sole provider of the family after her husband, Sazali Raini, passed away in 1995, leaving her to care for their three children.

Rosmah is currently receiving financial aid from the Sarawak Social Welfare Department.

In addition, the Bintulu Development Authority has also given her RM 2,100 for her children’s school expenses.

(NST 16/7/2010 at page 24)

Our point yet again is the Indian poor are poorer than the Orang Asli, Kadazan and Iban as they all have their social safety net of the traditional villages and ancestral land. It can be a hut but it is a hut on their very own land and they cannot be thrown out.

The poor Malaysian Indians do not have such ancestral lands or kampong where they can fall back on.

In addition to this the poor Iban and Kadazan’s even get RM 2,100 per month from the Bintulu Development Corporation and RM 40 million per year for the Sarawak poor alone.

But there is zero Fund or other corporation which has a record of helping out the poor Indians and never this RM 40 million to help the Indian poor.

All this possible only in UMNO Prime Minister Najib Razak’s One Malay-sia.

P, Uthayakumar