Describing it as “preposterous”, Klang MP Charles Santiago told FMT that Malaysians would vote for PH over Barisan Nasional (BN) because they felt that the former had more to offer the nation.

“In order to hide their weakness, they are pointing fingers at DAP. Stop looking for scapegoats and look at your own weaknesses, otherwise you will lose your job,” he told Saravanan.

Santiago said the human resources ministry, of which Saravanan is the minister, and the home ministry had caused Malaysians to lose their businesses because of their “bad management” of migrant workers coming into Malaysia.

Santiago suggested that if PH were to win GE15, it will be because of its policies and knowing what was good for Malaysia.

Meanwhile, DAP central executive committee member Sheikh Umar Bagharib Ali said Saravanan should not point fingers at others when he himself was a “yes man”.

“Don’t bother blaming others. There is no ‘big brother’ in PH and we don’t bow down to others,” Sheikh said in a statement.

Yesterday, Saravanan claimed that DAP will run the country if PH were to win GE15, since the party would have the most parliamentary seats after the election.

The Tapah MP pointed out that even opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim could not become the prime minister without DAP’s support.

Penang deputy chief minister P Ramasamy accused Saravanan of resorting to this “demonising” of DAP as he was afraid he would fail to defend his Tapah parliamentary seat.

While it was possible that DAP may win more seats than the other PH component parties, he maintained that it did not mean that the government would be controlled by the party.

“It serves no purpose to demonise DAP as it has more Indian support than MIC. To be exact, MIC only has the support of Malays loyal to Umno.

“The time has come for MIC to decide whether it wants to continue as a party or merge with Umno as a separate wing for Indians,” Ramasamy said, likening it to the non-Malay wings in PAS and Amanah.