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Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Summary: Keshvinder (lawyer by training) wants to focus on land issues and activities for youths.
BTW, Malim Nawar had developed a lot compared to 20 years ago. The railway station had been closed since double-tracking project started. I still remember taking train from KL station years ago.
Know your state rep: Squatters depending on him to secure land titles
By : Jaspal Singh
MALIM NAWAR: The odds may have been against Keshvinder Singh in the general election but he proved his detractors wrong by winning the Malim Nawar state seat. The 37-year-old father of two who joined DAP in April 2005 was seen as a political greenhorn with little chance of taking over the seat from the Barisan Nasional.
“Many, including friends and relatives, did not expect me to win as they considered me a greenhorn but that did not dampen my resolve to do my best to win the seat,” he told the New Straits Times. However, Keshvinder, who defeated Barisan Nasional’s Chai Song Poh with a majority of 1,362 votes, acknowledged that the next four or five years before the next polls will not be easy for him.
Just two months into his new job, he has already received close to 1,000 appeals from constituents to help them to either get new land titles or renew old ones. Many of them have been squatting on state land for two generations or more and, so far, have failed in their attempts to apply for land titles. Some of those whose titles have expired have been trying to get them renewed for more than 20 years. » Read more: Interview with Malim Nawar Assemblyman Keshvinder Singh
