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DAP calls on Dr. Mahathir to relax ban on public rallies during general elections to ensure a meaningful elections, and not a ‘stifled’ campaign

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, 22.3.1982

DAP calls on Dr. Mahathir to relax ban on public rallies during general elections to ensure a meaningful elections, and not a ‘stifled’ campaign

When he announced the date of dissolution of Parliament and the Peninsular State Assemblies, the Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, said he was doing so in advance to give the Opposition time “to prepare for their final days”. Continue reading DAP calls on Dr. Mahathir to relax ban on public rallies during general elections to ensure a meaningful elections, and not a ‘stifled’ campaign

Call on the Dr. Mahathir government to ‘Look and Follow Japan’ in greatly expanding local university places and allowing the establishment of private universities

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling , Lim Kit Siang, at the Thousand-People Dinner organised by the Batu Pahat DAP Branch held on Saturday, 20th March 1982 at 7.30 pm.

Call on the Dr. Mahathir government to ‘Look and Follow Japan’ in greatly expanding local university places and allowing the establishment of private universities

The Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, has asked Malaysians to ‘Look East’ and to emulate the work ethics of the Japanese, which had enabled Japan to rise from the ashes of destruction in 1945 to become the modern economic miracle. Continue reading Call on the Dr. Mahathir government to ‘Look and Follow Japan’ in greatly expanding local university places and allowing the establishment of private universities

DAP calls for legislation to enable the ACA to arrest and prosecute public servants for corruption for having amassed property or pecuniary resources disproportionate to the known sources of income

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Anti-Corruption Agency Bill on Friday, 19th March 1982

DAP calls for legislation to enable the ACA to arrest and prosecute public servants for corruption for having amassed property or pecuniary resources disproportionate to the known sources of income

The House is today asked to re-name the National Bureau of Investigations and revert to the old name of Anti-Corruption Agency. Continue reading DAP calls for legislation to enable the ACA to arrest and prosecute public servants for corruption for having amassed property or pecuniary resources disproportionate to the known sources of income

Bintulu-isation of NEP

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Royal Address on March 18, 1982)

We are entering the second decade of the New Economic Policy, and on the threshold of launching the Fourth Malaysia Five Year Plan. Central to the success of the New Economic Policy as the government’s basic strategy to create a united, peaceful and prosperous Malaysia is the strict adherence of the government at all levels to the NEP’s cardinal tenets that “no particular group would experience any loss or feel any sense of deprivation of its rights, privileges, income, job or opportunity” and that there would be no robbing Peter to pay Paul’.

If it gains general currency that these cardinal tenets of the NEP are not respected, then irreparable harm would be done to the entire process of nation building in Malaysia. Continue reading Bintulu-isation of NEP

Call on people of Sarawak to vote for the DAP in the coming general elections to strengthen the Opposition to provide for an effective check against the rising tide of extremism in the 1980s, abuses of power and continued social and economic injustices and inequalities

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in Kuching on Friday, 12.3.1982

Call on people of Sarawak to vote for the DAP in the coming general elections to strengthen the Opposition to provide for an effective check against the rising tide of extremism in the 1980s, abuses of power and continued social and economic injustices and inequalities.

The next general elections is now very near at hand, and I expect it to be held on 24th April 1982, or a week before or after, The DAP will be contesting in Sarawak Parliamentary elections for the first time, and I hope that the people of Sarawak will give the DAP their support to strengthen the Opposition to provide for an effective check against the rising tide of extremism in the 1980s, abuses of power and the continued social and economic injustices and inequalities in the country. Continue reading Call on people of Sarawak to vote for the DAP in the coming general elections to strengthen the Opposition to provide for an effective check against the rising tide of extremism in the 1980s, abuses of power and continued social and economic injustices and inequalities

The Dangerous Eighties for Malaysia with the rise of forces of extremism and chauvinism which reject Malaysia as a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Peraling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Royal Address on Tuesday, March 9, 1982

The Dangerous Eighties for Malaysia with the rise of forces of extremism and chauvinism which reject Malaysia as a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation.
As Malaysia completes our first quarter century as an independent and sovereign nation, the people of Malaysia are still seeking a national consensus on which a united Malaysian nation could be founded. Continue reading The Dangerous Eighties for Malaysia with the rise of forces of extremism and chauvinism which reject Malaysia as a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation

Urgent cable to Acting Prime Minister urging immediate inquiry and stern disciplinary action including court martial against soldiers involved in rampage assaulting and molesting tappers at Batu 66, Mengkarak on February 26, 1982

Press Statement by DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Monday, 1st, March, 1982.

Urgent cable to Acting Prime Minister urging immediate inquiry and stern disciplinary action including court martial against soldiers involved in rampage assaulting and molesting tappers at Batu 66, Mengkarak on February 26, 1982

I have today sent an urgent cable to Acting Prime Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, urging an immediate inquiry and stern disciplinary action including court martial against a platoon of soldiers who went on a rampage last Friday at Batu 66, Mengkarak, Pahang, assaulting and molesting rubber tappers in their holdings, including, women and a 13-years-old boy. Continue reading Urgent cable to Acting Prime Minister urging immediate inquiry and stern disciplinary action including court martial against soldiers involved in rampage assaulting and molesting tappers at Batu 66, Mengkarak on February 26, 1982

Datuk Musa Hitam, to take immediate and firm action against a platoon of armed forces which went on a rampage some seven miles from Mengkarak new village on Friday assaulting and molesting rubber tappers

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Sunday, 28th Feb. 1982 at 2 p.m.

Call on Acting Prime Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, to take immediate and firm action against a platoon of armed forces which went on a rampage some seven miles from Mengkarak new village on Friday assaulting and molesting rubber tappers.

On Friday, 26th February, 1982, from between 8 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. at Mengkarak Batu 66 rubber smallholdings, a platoon of soldiers went on a rampage against the tappers working on the holdings, assaulting them with rifles, slapping and kicking the men, women, girls and even a 13-year-old boy, demanding that they strip themselves, resulting in one serious case of injury and hospitalisation in the Mentakab General Hospital. Continue reading Datuk Musa Hitam, to take immediate and firm action against a platoon of armed forces which went on a rampage some seven miles from Mengkarak new village on Friday assaulting and molesting rubber tappers

Call on Petaling Jaya Municipality to revert to the old car parking system at Jalan Othman (old town) in the interests of public convenience and the business of the market stallholders

by DAP MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday 27th Feb 1982:

Call on Petaling Jaya Municipality to revert to the old car parking system at Jalan Othman (old town) in the interests of public convenience and the business of the market stallholders.

The introduction of the new car parking system by the Petaling Jaya Municipality for some two weeks for the Jalan Othman (old town) market has caused great public inconvenience and losses to the market stallholders. Continue reading Call on Petaling Jaya Municipality to revert to the old car parking system at Jalan Othman (old town) in the interests of public convenience and the business of the market stallholders

Lim Kit Siang rebuts Dr. Mahathir and wants Prime Minister to explain what is wrong in the DAP asking the people opposed to the implementation of 3M in Chinese and Tamil primary schools to express themselves in the general election

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at a dinner organised by the Cheras Jaya DAP Branch on Saturday, 20th February 1982, at 7.30p.m.

Lim Kit Siang rebuts Dr. Mahathir and wants Prime Minister to explain what is wrong in the DAP asking the people opposed to the implementation of 3M in Chinese and Tamil primary schools to express themselves in the general election.

In his speech when opening the 3-day UMNO information course in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, the Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir, charged that an opposition party had turned the 3M issue into a racial issue and that another party had fallen into its traps. He also criticised opposition parties for creating doubts among the people by turning non-issues to issues for their own political gain. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang rebuts Dr. Mahathir and wants Prime Minister to explain what is wrong in the DAP asking the people opposed to the implementation of 3M in Chinese and Tamil primary schools to express themselves in the general election