Category: Coalition Politics

My intention is to push Keng Yaik beyond the limit of his patience and sue me in court for calling him “an inveterate, compulsive and incorrigible liar”

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Monday, 7th May 1990 at 11.30 a.m.

My intention is to push Keng Yaik beyond the limit of his patience and sue me in court for calling him “an inveterate, compulsive and incorrigible liar”

Gerakan President, Datuk Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, warned in Batu Pahat yesterday that I should not push him past the “limit of his patience” and that reserved the right to defend himself and his name. Continue reading My intention is to push Keng Yaik beyond the limit of his patience and sue me in court for calling him “an inveterate, compulsive and incorrigible liar”

DAP warns of MCA and Gerakan plot to create a false issue to confuse and trap the voters in the next general elections

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the two-day Dap National Election Strategy Seminar held in Batu Ferringhi, Penang on Sunday,6th May 1990 at a.m.

DAP warns of MCA and Gerakan plot to create a false issue to confuse and trap the voters in the next general elections

DAP must warn the people of MCA and Gerakan plot to create a false issueto confuse and trap the voters in the next general elections. Continue reading DAP warns of MCA and Gerakan plot to create a false issue to confuse and trap the voters in the next general elections

Lim Keng Yaik is an inveterate, compulsive and incorrigible liar and I challenge him to sue me for slander and defamation for exposing his reputation and good name to public ridicule, opprobrium and odium

Statement by parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Chan She Shu Yuen in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday,3rd May 1990 at 11 a.m. on the challenge to Gerakan President, Dr. Lim Keng Yaik to produce proof of his allegation of DAP-PAS Jakarta ‘secret’ meeting

Lim Keng Yaik is an inveterate, compulsive and incorrigible liar and I challenge him to sue me for slander and defamation for exposing his reputation and good name to public ridicule, opprobrium and odium.

On Sunday, 22nd April 1990, the Gerakan President and Primary Industries Minister, Datuk Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, when opening the Selangor Gerakan. Assembly in Petaling Jaya, alleged a secret DAP-PAS meeting Jakarta. Continue reading Lim Keng Yaik is an inveterate, compulsive and incorrigible liar and I challenge him to sue me for slander and defamation for exposing his reputation and good name to public ridicule, opprobrium and odium

If trade union leaders should be apolitical, then the Minister for Human Resources should set the example and resign as MCA National Vice President or allow a non-politician to be appointed Minister

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, when closing the “Malaysian Indian Economic Congress 1990 organized by the Tamilian Social & Welfare Association at the Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, May 1, 1990 at 5.30 p.m.

If trade union leaders should be apolitical, then the Minister for Human Resources should set the example and resign as MCA National Vice President or allow a non-politician to be appointed Minister

In the last few days, the question of the political role of trade union leaders has resurfaced as a controversy because of the brickbats by Government leaders, led by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, over the decision by the MTUC President, Zainal Rampak, to join Parti Semangat 46. Continue reading If trade union leaders should be apolitical, then the Minister for Human Resources should set the example and resign as MCA National Vice President or allow a non-politician to be appointed Minister

Strong DAP denial that it is responsible for the spate of reports in Chinese press today that Liong Sik had given a distorted version of MCA Central Committee meeting and about Kim Sai’s pledge not to contest for the post of MCA President

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, to the DAPSY Publicity Bureau at DAP PJ Hqrs on Friday, April 27, 1990 at 8 p.m.

Strong DAP denial that it is responsible for the spate of reports in Chinese press today that Liong Sik had given a distorted version of MCA Central Committee meeting and about Kim Sai’s pledge not to contest for the post of MCA President

There was a spate of reports in the Chinese press today that the MCA President, Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik, had given a distorted version of the MCA Central Committee meeting on Tuesday, 24th April 1990 when he told a Press Conference that MCA Deputy President, Datuk Lee Kim Sai, had given the MCA Central Committee a pledge not to contest for the post of MCA President in the July MCA party elections. Continue reading Strong DAP denial that it is responsible for the spate of reports in Chinese press today that Liong Sik had given a distorted version of MCA Central Committee meeting and about Kim Sai’s pledge not to contest for the post of MCA President

DAP-Semangat 46 co-operate will work to re-unite Malaysians who have been divided by the politics of race of the Barisan Nasional to lay a sounder basis for nation-building in the 1990s

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Joint DAP-Semangat 46 National Ceramah held at Kluang on Saturday, 24th March 1990 at 9 pm

DAP-Semangat 46 co-operate will work to re-unite Malaysians who have been divided by the politics of race of the Barisan Nasional to lay a sounder basis for nation-building in the 1990s

Malaysian have been deeply divided by the politics of race of the Barisan Nasional to the extent that many leaders have admitted that the problem of racial polarisation is the most serious in the 33-year history of Malaysia since Independence. Continue reading DAP-Semangat 46 co-operate will work to re-unite Malaysians who have been divided by the politics of race of the Barisan Nasional to lay a sounder basis for nation-building in the 1990s

Challenge to Liong Sik to explain whether the MCA’s 41st anniversary ‘boat people’ advertisement is a symbol that the Malaysian Chinese have become a ‘boat people’ or the MCA leadership has ‘boat people’ mentality

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, to the DAP National Publicity Bureau meeting in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, March 22, 1990 at 10 am

Challenge to Liong Sik to explain whether the MCA’s 41st anniversary ‘boat people’ advertisement is a symbol that the Malaysian Chinese have become a ‘boat people’ or the MCA leadership has ‘boat people’ mentality

On 8th October 1989, the MCA launched with great fanfare its so-called Malaysian Unity Plan (MUP) on its “Vision Beyond 1990”. Continue reading Challenge to Liong Sik to explain whether the MCA’s 41st anniversary ‘boat people’ advertisement is a symbol that the Malaysian Chinese have become a ‘boat people’ or the MCA leadership has ‘boat people’ mentality

Call on MCA, Gerakan and MIC Ministers to ask the Cabinet to issue a policy statement that appointment of Professors and faculty deans is based solely on merit and not subject to quota system

Part II of Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, when declaring open the National DAPSY Workshop at Petaling Jaya on Sunday, 11th March 1990 at 9am

Call on MCA, Gerakan and MIC Ministers to ask the Cabinet to issue a policy statement that appointment of Professors and faculty deans is based solely on merit and not subject to quota system

It is very sad that in the controversy over the appointment of four non-Malays as faculty deans in the University of Malaya, the MCA and Gerakan Ministers have been very silent. Continue reading Call on MCA, Gerakan and MIC Ministers to ask the Cabinet to issue a policy statement that appointment of Professors and faculty deans is based solely on merit and not subject to quota system

Most regrettable that the Gerakan is so desperate about retaining the next government that it had missed and turned the Governor’s Address into a partisan election call

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in the Penang State Assembly on Wednesday, 7th March 1990 during the debate on the Motion of Thanks for the Governor’s Address

Most regrettable that the Gerakan is so desperate about retaining the next government that it had missed and turned the Governor’s Address into a partisan election call

I rise, together with other DAP Assemblymen, to thank the Governor for his Speech at the opening of the Penang State Assembly. This is the second time that I had attended the official opening of the Penang State Assembly, as on the two previous occasions, I was enjoying the hospitality of the Barisan Nasional Government at the Kamunting detention centre. Continue reading Most regrettable that the Gerakan is so desperate about retaining the next government that it had missed and turned the Governor’s Address into a partisan election call

Gerakan preparing a million-poster campaign to try to provoke me to commit a sedition offence so that I could be jailed and disqualified from standing for elections

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Kepala Batas DAP Branch Anniversary Dinner on Sunday, 4th March 1990 at 8 p.m.

Gerakan preparing a million-poster campaign to try to provoke me to commit a sedition offence so that I could be jailed and disqualified from standing for elections

The 25,000-people Joint DAP-Semangat 46 National Ceramah at Dewan Sri Pinang on February 17, which launched off the national series of such ceramahs throughout the country, has clearly shaken the Gerakan leadership to its very core. Continue reading Gerakan preparing a million-poster campaign to try to provoke me to commit a sedition offence so that I could be jailed and disqualified from standing for elections