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DAP to submit the 300,000 Save Bukit China mass signatures to Cheng Hoon Teng Temple on Saturday, 3rd November 1984

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, on arrival of the Thousand – Mile Save Bukit China Marathon Walkers at Bukit China, Malacca, on Tuesday, 30th Oct. 1984 at 5 p.m.

DAP to submit the 300,000 Save Bukit China mass signatures to Cheng Hoon Teng Temple on Saturday, 3rd November 1984

Today, we mark the completion of four highlights in the Save Bukit China campaign: Continue reading DAP to submit the 300,000 Save Bukit China mass signatures to Cheng Hoon Teng Temple on Saturday, 3rd November 1984

DAP to organise 1,000 Save Bukit China ceramahs throughout Malaysia by 1985 to get Malaysians to understand its historic, cultural, religious, political and nation – building implications and importance

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP 100,000 -People Save Bukit China Gathering at Pay Fong Chinese Independent Secondary School on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1984 at 8 p.m.

DAP to organise 1,000 Save Bukit China ceramahs throughout Malaysia by 1985 to get Malaysians to understand its historic, cultural, religious, political and nation – building implications and importance

I want to pay tribute to everyone inside and outside the Party who have contributed to make the 300,000 Save Bukit China mass signature campaign, the Thousand – Mile Save Bukit China Marathon Walk, the 10,000 – People Save Bukit China Dinner in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 28, and the 10,000 – People Save Bukit China Gathering in Malacca tonight a great success. Continue reading DAP to organise 1,000 Save Bukit China ceramahs throughout Malaysia by 1985 to get Malaysians to understand its historic, cultural, religious, political and nation – building implications and importance

Call on the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, To publicly name the three top UMNO leaders arrested by Anti – Corruption Agency on Oct. 16 to demonstrate that there would be no cover – up in the fight against corruption.

Press Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, on Monday, 29th Oct. 1984:

Call on the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, To publicly name the three top UMNO leaders arrested by Anti – Corruption Agency on Oct. 16 to demonstrate that there would be no cover – up in the fight against corruption.

I welcome the establishment of the Malaysian Press Council by local newspaper groups which would act as a body to which the people could complain should they find that a newspaper had acted unfairly in publishing a news report. Continue reading Call on the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, To publicly name the three top UMNO leaders arrested by Anti – Corruption Agency on Oct. 16 to demonstrate that there would be no cover – up in the fight against corruption.

Tan Koon Swan MCA faction is sacrificing Bukit China to get UMNO help and support to solve the MCA power struggle

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Save Bukit 10,000 – People Dinner held in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 28th Oct. 1984 at 8.30 p.m.

Tan Koon Swan MCA faction is sacrificing Bukit China to get UMNO help and support to solve the MCA power struggle

When the DAP first launched the Save Bukit China ‘Thousand – Mile Marathon Walk’ to bring the 300,000 Save Bukit China mass signature to the 10,000 – People Save Bukit China dinner in Kuala Lumpur and the 5,000 –People Gathering in Malacca on Tuesday, 30th Oct. 1984, for them to be eventually submitted to the Cheng Hoon Teng Temple Committee, the Bukit China trustees, Save Bukit China walkers at Alor Star on 19th Oct. were harassed and arrested by the Police. Continue reading Tan Koon Swan MCA faction is sacrificing Bukit China to get UMNO help and support to solve the MCA power struggle

Challenge to Datuk Harris Salleh on the companies I had mentioned in my budget speech in Parliament

Press Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary–General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, Oct. 27, 1984:

Challenge to Datuk Harris Salleh on the companies I had mentioned in my budget speech in Parliament

On Thursday, the Berjaya MP for Hilir Padas, Mohamed Yusuf Haji Yakob, denied the truth of what I said in Parliament during my budget speech about the companies involving Datuk Harris Salleh, Sabah Chief Minister. Continue reading Challenge to Datuk Harris Salleh on the companies I had mentioned in my budget speech in Parliament

DAP greatly shocked that Cabinet had no time for the BMF inquiry Committee interim report

Press Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, Oct. 26, 1984:

DAP greatly shocked that Cabinet had no time for the BMF inquiry Committee interim report

After the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday two days ago, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, said that the Cabinet had received the first interim report on the BMF loans scandal prepared by the Ahmad Nordin inquiry committee, but discussions on the report was deferred as the Cabinet had no time to study it. Continue reading DAP greatly shocked that Cabinet had no time for the BMF inquiry Committee interim report

Daim’s Maiden Budget

Speech by Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang in Dewan Rakyat on the 1985 budget on October 24, 1984

I congratulate the new Finance Minister, Daim Zainuddin, for delivering his maiden Budget last Friday – and if I am not mistaken, it was also his maiden speech in Parliament.

Daim Zainuddin’s budget has another distinction in that it provoked a public protest and demonstration in Johore Bahru on Sunday for its being a “rich man budget”, at a period of deteriorating economy and worsening poverty arising from escalating prices of essential foodstuff and scarcity of low-cost housing. Continue reading Daim’s Maiden Budget

To the 1,200 delegates of the Tan Koon Swan MCA faction ‘Save the Party’ two – day seminar At Genting Highlands on Oct. 20/12, 1984

An Open Letter by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, to the 1,200 delegates of the Tan Koon Swan MCA faction attending the ‘Save the Party’ Genting Highlands Seminar on 20th and 21st Oct. 1984

To the 1,200 delegates of the Tan Koon Swan MCA faction ‘Save the Party’ two – day seminar At Genting Highlands on Oct. 20/12, 1984

A last and final opportunity for the Tan Koon Swan MCA Faction to redeem its political reputation by clearly and unequivocally announcing its opposition to any Malacca State Government plan to forcibly develop Bukit China and disowning all those who had expressed support Continue reading To the 1,200 delegates of the Tan Koon Swan MCA faction ‘Save the Party’ two – day seminar At Genting Highlands on Oct. 20/12, 1984

Call on Malaysian Indians to stand up against chauvinists And racialists who want to aggravate racial polarization In the Deepavali spirit of ‘good triumphing over evil’

1984 Deepavali Message by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary – General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, released on Sunday, 21.10.1984

Call on Malaysian Indians to stand up against chauvinists And racialists who want to aggravate racial polarization In the Deepavali spirit of ‘good triumphing over evil’

In wishing all Malaysian Indians a Happy Deepavali, I call on all Malaysian Indians to stand up in the Deepavali spirit of ‘good triumphing over evil’ against chauvinists and racialists who want to aggravate racial polarisation by denying to other races and religions their rightful place in multi – racial, multi – religious Malaysia. Continue reading Call on Malaysian Indians to stand up against chauvinists And racialists who want to aggravate racial polarization In the Deepavali spirit of ‘good triumphing over evil’

Call for a Royal commission of Inquiry into the BMF Scandal

I rise to move:

“That this House

“NOTES the repeated public statements of the Prime Minister and other top Cabinet Ministers of the Government’s resolve to bring to book the ‘culprits’ in the Bumiputra Malaysia Finance loans scandal;

“NOTES the call by the Chairman of the BMF Inquiry Committee, Tan Sri Ahmad Nordin, that a Royal Commission of Inquiry is the only forms of inquiry to establish if anyone is criminally liable in the BMF loans scandal after he had spent nine months to prepare the interim report of the BMF loans scandal;

“RESOLVES that a Royal Commission of Inquiry should be established to investigate into all aspects of the BMF loans scandal and to expose the BMF culprits who have caused Malaysia to lose some $2.5 billion.”

Continue reading Call for a Royal commission of Inquiry into the BMF Scandal