Newly elected party president J Loga Bala Mohan said MyPPP as a multiracial party would be an asset to BN, especially in wooing fence sitters.

Umno, MIC and MCA as race-based BN components had their own roles to play, “but it is limited to their respective communities”, he said. “There are those who do not believe in race-based parties and we can be an option.”

MyPPP, which left BN in May 2018, has applied to rejoin the coalition. On Sunday, BN chairman Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the BN supreme council will discuss MyPPP’s application.

Loga dismissed analysts’ views of MyPPP’s ineffectiveness as being personal opinion.

Lau Zhe Wei of International Islamic University Malaysia said Loga’s party would not be able to bring anything to the BN table, compared to MIC and MCA.

However, Azmi Hassan of Akademi Nusantara felt that MyPPP held better sway over Indian voters compared to MIC but expects MIC to object to MyPPP’s application to rejoin BN.

The People’s Progressive Party was formed in 1953 and is currently believed to have about 320,000 members in 119 divisions and 3,119 branches.