Shamsul said this was the feedback from the grassroots when he was campaigning as a candidate for the vice-president’s post during the recently concluded party polls.

He reminded the party leadership not to ignore members’ voices on the ground, as these were their “wishes” and “requests”.

“When I was campaigning, many members on the ground asked me, why isn’t PKR’s win in the 14th general election reflected in the government?

“How are we to achieve the reform agenda when many leaders are still following old party struggles?

“These members are not asking for positions, but they are asking for PKR to make its presence felt in governmental departments,” he said in his winding-up speech at PKR’s National Congress here at the Ideal Convention Centre (IDCC).

Shamsul said the complaints were the same in most of the states that he visited where members questioned why the party was not playing a more significant role in the government.