Category: Campaign

Call on DAP States and branched to get on with the DAP’s Work and Plans for the Future

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, DAP Secretary General and MP for Petaling , to a meeting of DAP National Publicity Committee in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 9th December 1980 at 7 pm

Call on DAP States and branched to get on with the DAP’s Work and Plans for the Future

All DAP States, Branches and members should now get on with the DAP’s Work and Plans for the Future, and not allow the campaign of our political enemies and the Barisan-controlled press to distract us from our primary objective, which is to ever-expand and increasing support from the people of Malaysia for the DAP’s objective and ideals of a Malaysian Malaysia. Continue reading Call on DAP States and branched to get on with the DAP’s Work and Plans for the Future

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association officials surprised by Malacca Barisan National interpretation of provision that a Assembly Member could begin to be absent when the Assembly is in recess

by Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, DAP Secretary General and State Assemblyman for Kubu, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, on Friday, Nov. 21, 1980:

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association officials surprised by Malacca Barisan National interpretation of provision that a Assembly Member could begin to be absent when the Assembly is in recess

The chief Minister said that the Malacca Barisan National move to declare my Kubu seat vacant is based on law and not personal.
He said that the Kubu seat could be declared vacant because I had been absent without permission from the Speaker for six months. Continue reading Commonwealth Parliamentary Association officials surprised by Malacca Barisan National interpretation of provision that a Assembly Member could begin to be absent when the Assembly is in recess

Call on the voters of Pengkalan Kota to vote the DAP candidate

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leaders and DAP Secretary-General Lim Kit Siang at the Pengkalan Kota state assembly by-election nomination on Thursday, Oct. 30, 1980 at 11.30 a.m

Call on the voters of Pengkalan Kota to vote the DAP candidate to lay down the basis for the DAP’s 1983 Project to capture Penang State Government

This is the second by election the DAP is contesting in Penang since the last general election in 1978, when the DAP won four Parliamentary and five State Assembly seats. Continue reading Call on the voters of Pengkalan Kota to vote the DAP candidate

From The SG’s Desk

Cultural Revolution without Red Guards

The Party is in the process of carrying out a Cultural Revolution – but one without Red Guards. There must be a conscious effort by all party leaders and members to bring about change of attitudes to party commitment, party responsibilities and the need to set an example of leadership to others.

Party leaders, if they are to be good party leaders, must be prepared to commit a greater totally of their lives to the cause of the Party. Continue reading From The SG’s Desk

From the SG’s Desk

State Committees and Finance

I had asked for new approaches and concepts in organization to better equip the Party for the Eighties. New ideas and approaches should not be confined to Organisation, but must apply to all fields of Party activity.

In F.SG.D. (SG/6/80), I had dwelt on the ‘Responsibility and Challenge of State Committees’. What I said there was only the beginning of new ideas on State Committee’s new responsibilities in the Decade of the Eighties. Continue reading From the SG’s Desk

From the SG’s Desk

Responsibility and Challenge of State Committees

From now on, State Committees must play an active and leading role for all party tasks in the State, and the Central Executive Committee will hold the State Committees responsible for all aspects of the Party’s programmes and projects in the state, e.g. in fulfilling sales targets for the Rockets, in upgrading the organization of branches, or in meeting the various political tasks set by the Party leadership from time to time. Continue reading From the SG’s Desk

Party to concentrate on Votes’ Registration Campaign

Party to concentrate on Votes’ Registration Campaign

I understand that the voters’ registration campaign will be held in August this year. In my view, this campaign is of crucial importance as it will determine to a large extent whether we succeed in making the next general elections our most glorious milestone to date.

For all practical purposes, we should consider that we have only two years left to register eligible voters, namely, 1980 and 1981, before the next general elections. Continue reading Party to concentrate on Votes’ Registration Campaign

From the SG’s Desk

DAP Political Offensive for the Eighties

The DAP is now on the eve of launching the Party’s Political Offensive of the 80s. this political offensive, aimed at winning over a even bigger number of Malaysians, needs the support, contribution and sacrifice of every party member, official, Member of Parliament and State Assemblyman, to ensure its success.

The success of this political offensive will determine whether the DAP will grow to be an even more powerful political force in the country, or whether our glorious days are already behind us. I believe that our finest days are still ahead, and let us, together, scale even greater heights. Continue reading From the SG’s Desk

DAP Members of Parliament and State Assemblymen instructed to double up as spokesmen of rural Malays in Parliament and State Assemblies.

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the first meeting of the new batch of 9 DAP Members of Parliament and 23 State Assemblyman at DAP Jalan Sultan Office, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday, 1st Sept. at 10 a.m.

DAP Members of Parliament and State Assemblymen instructed to double up as spokesmen of rural Malays in Parliament and State Assemblies.

Eight days ago, the people of Malaysia elected nine DAP Members of Parliament and 23 State Assemblymen to represent them in Parliament and the State Assemblies. Continue reading DAP Members of Parliament and State Assemblymen instructed to double up as spokesmen of rural Malays in Parliament and State Assemblies.

DAP’s 1979 Sarawak General Elections Objective: To restore the people’s voice in the Council Negri and to establish that Government is to serve the interests of the rakyat and not a handful of politicians and their backers.

Arrival Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at Kuching airport on Sunday, 19th August 1979.

DAP’s 1979 Sarawak General Elections Objective: To restore the people’s voice in the Council Negri and to establish that Government is to serve the interests of the rakyat and not a handful of politicians and their backers.

The DAP will be contesting the Sarawak General Elections with very clear objectives in mind. Of course, we would like to win the maximum number of seats in which we will be fielding candidates, bur even more important than winning seats, we want to bring about radical changes in the political development of the state by restoring the people’s voice in the Council Negri and to establish that Government is to serve the interests of the rakyat and not a handful of politicians and their sponsors. Continue reading DAP’s 1979 Sarawak General Elections Objective: To restore the people’s voice in the Council Negri and to establish that Government is to serve the interests of the rakyat and not a handful of politicians and their backers.