<p>"Like India, Malaysia is multi-cultural and multi-ethnic…,” the prime minister said at a joint press interaction in the administrative capital Putrajaya with his counterpart Najib Tun Razak. He added he was confident Malaysia had the “built-in flexibility" to deal with the ethnic issue.<br /><br />The Prime Minister's observation came in response to a question on whether the two leaders had discussed the issue of Indian origin communities in Malaysia and the perception that the community had a sense of being left out. <br /><br />While Manmohan Singh was more expansive, Malaysian Prime Minister Razak was to the point. “This is purely a domestic matter for Malaysia,” he said, stating curtly that the matter was not discussed by them in their bilateral talks. <br /><br />People of Indian origin account for 2.1 million or eight percent of Malaysia's population. Most of them are Tamils and Hindus.</p>
<p>"Like India, Malaysia is multi-cultural and multi-ethnic…,” the prime minister said at a joint press interaction in the administrative capital Putrajaya with his counterpart Najib Tun Razak. He added he was confident Malaysia had the “built-in flexibility" to deal with the ethnic issue.<br /><br />The Prime Minister's observation came in response to a question on whether the two leaders had discussed the issue of Indian origin communities in Malaysia and the perception that the community had a sense of being left out. <br /><br />While Manmohan Singh was more expansive, Malaysian Prime Minister Razak was to the point. “This is purely a domestic matter for Malaysia,” he said, stating curtly that the matter was not discussed by them in their bilateral talks. <br /><br />People of Indian origin account for 2.1 million or eight percent of Malaysia's population. Most of them are Tamils and Hindus.</p>