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Call on MCA and Gerakan branches and members to pressure their Ministers to raise the Abdullah Ahmad speech issue in Cab

Speech by Parliamentary opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Tanjung and Assemblyman for Kampong Kolam, Lim Kit Siang, at the official opening of the DAP Tranquerah constituency office in Jalan Tranquerah, Malacca on Thursday, 11.9.1986 at 10 a.m.

Call on MCA and Gerakan branches and members to pressure their Ministers to raise the Abdullah Ahmad speech issue in Cabinet.

The MCA and Gerakan ministers have disappointed the people; in particular the Malaysian Chinese whom they claim to represent, by their cowardly and evasive attitude where they dare not even say a word about the Singapore speech of UMNO Mp for Kok Lanas, Datuk Abdullah Ahmad, in the Cabinet yesterday. Continue reading Call on MCA and Gerakan branches and members to pressure their Ministers to raise the Abdullah Ahmad speech issue in Cab

Call on Datin Rafidah Aziz to invite the Anti-Corruption Agency to conduct full and free investigations into LPN to clean up agency and restore public confidence

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Tanjung and Assemblyman for Kampong Kolam, Lim Kit Siang, at DAP Headquarters on Wednesday, 10.9.1986 at 12 noon.

Call on Datin Rafidah Aziz to invite the Anti-Corruption Agency to conduct full and free investigations into LPN to clean up agency and restore public confidence.

I am very disappointed by the belated reaction of the Minister for Public Enterprises, Datin Paduka Rafidah Aziz, on the LPN mess in Kedah and perils where because of its bufigle, inefficiency and incompetence, the padi farmers in Kedah and Perlis face the prospect of losing $25 million in the present padi harvest. Continue reading Call on Datin Rafidah Aziz to invite the Anti-Corruption Agency to conduct full and free investigations into LPN to clean up agency and restore public confidence

DAP MPs and Assemblymen is each State should form a special team to make special visits to rural areas to understand and espouse the problems, aspirations and grievances of the Malay poor in the rural areas

Speech BY Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Tanjung and Assemblyman for Kampong Kolam, Lim Kit Siang, at the dinner of two Selangor DAP MPs and five Assemblymen in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, Sept.9, 1986 at 8 p.m.

DAP MPs and Assemblymen is each State should form a special team to make special visits to rural areas to understand and espouse the problems, aspirations and grievances of the Malay poor in the rural areas.

In the 1986 General Elections , the DAP has emerged as the sole Opposition in seven State assemblies, namely Penang, Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Malacca, Pahang and Johore, and the virtual Opposition in Parliament, except for the single PAS MP. Continue reading DAP MPs and Assemblymen is each State should form a special team to make special visits to rural areas to understand and espouse the problems, aspirations and grievances of the Malay poor in the rural areas

DAP accepts Tunku’s challenge to be a good and responsible Opposition to check excesses of the ruling government.

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secreatry-General, MP for Tanjung and Assemblymen for Kampong Kolam, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Sunday, 7.9.1986 at 11am.

DAP accepts Tunku’s challenge to be a good and responsible Opposition to check excesses of the ruling government.

Malaysian’s first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, said in Penang on Friday that an effective opposition party is needed in a democratic country to check excesses of the ruling government and that a good and responsible opposition party would help create a more stable society. Continue reading DAP accepts Tunku’s challenge to be a good and responsible Opposition to check excesses of the ruling government.

Call on Home minister to publicly clarify the status of former Deputy Minister and MP for Kok Lanas, Datuk Abdullah Ahmad, whether he was a pro-Russian communist agent as he himself confessed in 1977 or whether he had been politically victims and framed

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP secretary-General, MP for Tanjung and Assemblyman for Kampong Kolam Lim Kit Siang, at the 20th Anniversary and Farewell Dinner organized by Malacca State DAP at Pay Fong Chinese Independent secondary School on Thursday, 4th sept.1986 at 10 p.m.

Call on Home minister to publicly clarify the status of former Deputy Minister and MP for Kok Lanas, Datuk Abdullah Ahmad, whether he was a pro-Russian communist agent as he himself confessed in 1977 or whether he had been politically victims and framed.

Last week, former Deputy Minister and presently MP for Kok Lanas, Datuk Abdullah Ahmad, stirred up waves in Malaysia aggravating racial polarization with his highly provocative, tendentious and seditious speech at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs on what he claimed to be the reality of Malaysian polities. Continue reading Call on Home minister to publicly clarify the status of former Deputy Minister and MP for Kok Lanas, Datuk Abdullah Ahmad, whether he was a pro-Russian communist agent as he himself confessed in 1977 or whether he had been politically victims and framed

Advice to Ghaffar Baba and other top Barisan leaders to stop governing Malaysia by threats and warnings, but by winning the hearts and minds of Malaysians

By Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung Assemblyman for Kampong Kolam, Lim Kit Siang, on Tuesday, 2.9.1986 in Penang.

Advice to Ghaffar Baba and other top Barisan leaders to stop governing Malaysia by threats and warnings, but by winning the hearts and minds of Malaysians.

Deputy Prime minister, Ghaffar Baba, warned at the Penang UMNO Convention yesterday that the government will ‘track down and destroy’ those who discredit the New Economic Policy, for they are frightening off foreign investors. Continue reading Advice to Ghaffar Baba and other top Barisan leaders to stop governing Malaysia by threats and warnings, but by winning the hearts and minds of Malaysians

Call on Government to give an assurance that it would not proceed with its proposal to amend the Official Secrets Act to impose amendatory one-year jail sentence for all offences under the Act when Parliament re-opens in October

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Tanjung and Assemblymen for Kampong Kolum, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Tuesday, 2.9.1986:

Call on Government to give an assurance that it would not proceed with its proposal to amend the Official Secrets Act to impose amendatory one-year jail sentence for all offences under the Act when Parliament re-opens in October.

I find the National Day message of the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed, disturbing in many respects.

For instance, Dr. Mahathir had said that Malaysians must not use the freedom of the press, “supposedly to exist in the West, to assess our mass media”. Continue reading Call on Government to give an assurance that it would not proceed with its proposal to amend the Official Secrets Act to impose amendatory one-year jail sentence for all offences under the Act when Parliament re-opens in October

DAP regrets that Dr. Mahathir has chosen to accept the explanation of MCA and Gerakan leaders to misinterpret the DAP victory and the 1986 general elections results

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung. Assemblyen for Kampong Kolam, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Monday, 1.9.1986.

DAP regrets that Dr. Mahathir has chosen to accept the explanation of MCA and Gerakan leaders to misinterpret the DAP victory and the 1986 general elections results.

I find the interview given by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, to the Mingguan Malaysia yesterday was shocking and regrettable., for its presents the picture of a Prime Minister who is not prepared to open up and understand and the legitimate aspiration of a new generation of Malaysians. Continue reading DAP regrets that Dr. Mahathir has chosen to accept the explanation of MCA and Gerakan leaders to misinterpret the DAP victory and the 1986 general elections results

Call on Prime Minister to give real meaning to the National Day slogan of ‘A Resolute Society, A Strong Nation’ by fighting the ills of the country

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Tanjong and Assemblyman for Kampong Kolam, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Sunday, 31.8.1986:

Call on Prime Minister to give real meaning to the National Day slogan of ‘A Resolute Society, A Strong Nation’ by fighting the ills of the country

The National Day slogan this year is ‘A Resolute Society, a Strong Nation’, but like the previous National Day slogans, there is a similar danger that this will be another empty catch-phrase forgotten by everyone a few days after National Day. Continue reading Call on Prime Minister to give real meaning to the National Day slogan of ‘A Resolute Society, A Strong Nation’ by fighting the ills of the country

Call on all political parties to put aside their differences to resolve the greatest problem in Malaysia – the aggravating racial polarization of the people

1986 National Day Message by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Tanjong and Assemblymen for Kampong Kolam, Lim Kit Siang, on Saturday, 30.8. 1986

Call on all political parties to put aside their differences to resolve the greatest problem in Malaysia – the aggravating racial polarization of the people

On the occasion of the 29th National Day of Malaysia, all Malaysians must be concerned by the single biggest problem facing the country, which will affect not only our economic recovery, but also restoration of national and international confidence in our system and government – the aggravating racial polarization of the people. Continue reading Call on all political parties to put aside their differences to resolve the greatest problem in Malaysia – the aggravating racial polarization of the people