Voice people's problems via more effective conventional ways - Hishammuddin

Listening to the people's problems by translating the resolutions to become government policies is a more effective conventional method than holding street demonstrations without any directions, said UMNO vice president Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.

The Defence Minister said since UMNO had long taken the approach to be close to the grassroots directly through conventional programmes to enable the resolutions to better reflect the people's actual needs.

"This differentiates us from those wanting to topple the government through shortcuts via street demonstrations, practise political hatred and promote disunity.

"Such action will not bring any meaning to the majority of the people out there who will definitely be able to assess, because they always expected from the country's leaders from conventional programmes such as these," he told reporters at the Ummah Agenda Empowerment (K-PAU) 2.0, at the Putra World Trade Centre, here today.

K-PAU, which is in the second year running, brings together economic, educational, religious, political and Bumiputera proposals to be finetuned through discussions with relevant ministers, academicians and leaders of non-governmental organisations, before being approved and brought to the UMNO general assembly at this month's end.