Gobind: Why RM85.5m for Jasa but ‘no funds’ for RTM?

PARLIAMENT | Gobind Singh Deo (Pakatan Harapan-Puchong) has questioned the government’s priorities in allocating RM85.5 million to revive the Special Affairs Department (Jasa) when state broadcasting network RTM is allegedly short on funds.

Debating the Budget 2021 this afternoon, the former communications and multimedia minister proposed that public money was better spent upskilling existing ministerial staff rather than setting up a new “propaganda unit”...