{"id":19630,"date":"2021-03-02T16:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T08:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=19630"},"modified":"2021-03-02T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T09:38:50","slug":"where-are-the-rice-and-food-baskets-for-kuala-lumpur-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/where-are-the-rice-and-food-baskets-for-kuala-lumpur-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the Rice and Food Baskets for Kuala Lumpur Residents?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Joint Media statement by Pakatan Harapan Members of Parliament from the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory Dated 1st March 2021<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. The announcement made by the Prime Minister during his Federal Territory Day speech that 5,750 bags of rice will be given each week to the B40 group in Kuala Lumpur is turning out to be nothing more than empty promises. To this day, residents are left wondering as to how the bags of rice will be allocated to them. They do not know the application process or whether they are even eligible to apply for this initiative. Has the distribution of rice been tasked to political appointees of the Perikatan Nasional(PN) government, and is this the reason why the rice has not reached its intended recipients?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.Besides that, RM50 million was allocated to JKM to oversee that essential food items worth RM100 would be given to eligible households through the Food Basket Program. The program doesn\u2019t seem to be running as planned. It\u2019s been three months since the Declaration of Emergency was announced and Malaysians are still unaware on how to get their food baskets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.We urge the PN Government to clearly define what mechanisms will be used to distribute the rice and food baskets. Any delay in this action will affect the lives of the most vulnerable in our society during the Covid-19 pandemic. Malaysia does not need the PN Government\u2019s report card to show how well they performed in giving feel-good speeches with empty promises, while the rakyat doesn\u2019t feel the benefits whatsoever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on these reasons, Parliament should convene so that the elected representatives can get answers to the above questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tan Kok Wai
Member of Parliament, Cheras<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fong Kui Lun
Member of Parliament, Bukit Bintang<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teresa Kok
Member of Parliament, Seputeh<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Tan Yee Kew
Member of Parliament, Wangsa Maju<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lim Lip Eng
Member of Parliament, Kepong<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fahmi Fadzil
Member of Parliament, Lembah Pantai<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad
Member of Parliament, Setiawangsa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

P. Prabakaran
Member of Parliament, Batu<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannah Yeoh
Member of Parliament, Segambut<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joint Media statement by Pakatan Harapan Members of Parliament from the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory Dated 1st March 2021 1. The announcement made by the Prime Minister during his Federal Territory Day speech that 5,750 bags of rice will be given each week to the B40 group in Kuala Lumpur is turning out to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[67,1494,536,388,1029],"class_list":["post-19630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-highlights","tag-hannah-yeoh","tag-jkm","tag-muhyiddin-yassin","tag-pakatan-harapan","tag-rina-harun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19651,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630\/revisions\/19651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}