After a twenty-year long association with the Liberal Party, Indian community leader Moti Visa has jumped on the bandwagon of the newly formed Transport Matters Party (TMP) ahead of the Victorian state election.
He is now all set to contest the November ballot on a TMP ticket from the Northern Metropolitan region of Melbourne.
And in line with TMP’s agenda, transport forms the core of Mr Visa’s campaign and feels the railway network must be expanded to accommodate the needs of the people travelling to the city for work.
Moti Visa wants to bring public transport issues to the forefront Source: Facebook
If elected, he is planning to renew the longstanding demand for the Doncaster railway line which will run through the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
“I live in Doncaster area where only buses are available as public transport. We have been hearing about Doncaster Rail and I took up with Transport ministers of Labor as well as Liberal governments from time to time but all in vain,” Mr Visa told SBS Punjabi.
The editor of an Indian newspaper and a prominent community leader, Mr Visa says, if elected, he will have an opportunity to do “more” work in the interest of the Indian migrants.
“In India, in Africa and now here in Australia I have helping and supporting and make them feel at home to new migrants, students. I want to do more by getting into the Parliament where I would have some influence on lawmakers as I would be one of them,” said Mr Visa.
Mr Visa who has run for elected office on three different occasions on a Liberal ticket says he felt disappointed with the Liberal Party because they never gave him the “credit” he deserved for his commitment to the Party.
File photo of Moti Visa with Liberal Party leader Matthew Guy Source: Facebook
“I had to leave Liberal Party with very heavy heart. I had been doing a lot of volunteer work at the time of State as well as Federal elections but I did not get any reward as a token of appreciation,” said Mr Visa.
