Felda no longer BN’s fixed deposit


Land with a purpose: Felda was first set up by Tun Razak to uplift the hardcore poor and landless Malaysians living in the rural areas in 1957. Almost all Felda settlements were his brainchild.

Changing times and younger generation’s voting trend account for it, say analysts

PETALING JAYA: Last Saturday’s Pelangai by-election result in Pahang showed that Barisan Nasional can no longer rely on Felda settlements to be their fixed vote banks as in the past, with changing times and voting trend of the younger generation, say analysts.

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