Category: DAP

Call on all parents to be concerned about the education of their children

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at the Pangkor Island DAP Public Rally on Saturday, 12th August 1972 at 9p.m.

Call on all parents to be concerned about the education of their children

The results of last year’s Std.V Assessment Examination, which revealed the shockingly high rate of failures in all subjects in all schools, have come as a shock to many parents. Continue reading Call on all parents to be concerned about the education of their children

DAP’s new plan for Selangor and Bungsar

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr.Lim Kit Siang, when addressing the inaugural meeting of the Bungsar Liaison Sub-Committee at 63-D Jalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 28th July 1972 at 7.30 p.m.

DAP’s new plan for Selangor and Bungsar

The DAP Special Delegates Congress, when it unanimously endorsed the decision of the Central Executive Committee on June 18 to expel Goh Hock Guan from the party, gave as one of its long list of reason Goh Hock Guan’s “failure to provide the leadership expected of him as Chairman of Selangor DAP State, in which position he was the cause of greater disunity and division in Selangor.” Continue reading DAP’s new plan for Selangor and Bungsar

Credentials for Special Delegates’ Congress

Credentials for Special Delegates’ Congress

Further to my circular to you dated 2nd July 1972 on the convening of a Special Delegates’ Congress to ratify the June 18 decision of the Central Executive Committee to purge the party of all destructive and disruptive elements, and to end all acts of indiscipline, this is to inform you of the credentials arrangements for the Congress:

1. Every delegate must possess a credential identification card before he is allowed entry to the congress meeting place at Dr. Chen Man Hin’s residence at No.8, Jalan Swettenham. Continue reading Credentials for Special Delegates’ Congress

Final revised programme of constituency tours

Final revised programme of constituency tours

The programme of constituency tours for the rest of the unvisited Parliamentary and State seats has to be further revised in view of recent developments.

The revised programme for the unvisited constituencies are as follows:

Sept. 2, 3 : Batang Padang
Sept.9 : Gunong Lambak
Sept. 10 : Bukit Rambai
Oct. 7, 8 : Kampur
Oct. 21, 22 : Penang Utara
Nov. 4, 5 : Seremban Barat
Nov. 18, 19 : Port Dickson
Dec. 2, 3 : Penchala
Dec. 3 : Bukit Raja
Dec. 9 : Jelutong

Members of Parliamentary Assemblymen please make a note of the above changes, and make the necessary arrangements for my tour.

DAP draws up a blue-printed for a new series of political and organisational initiatives for the next 18 months

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at the First Anniversary Dinner of the Bukit Bintang DAP Branch on Tuesday, 4th July 1972 at 10 p.m.

DAP draws up a blue-printed for a new series of political and organisational initiatives for the next 18 months

Many of you who had subscribed to this dinner before June 18 must have thought on that date, when the DAP Central Executive Committee took drastic action to purge the Party of destructive and disruptive elements, that you would lose your subscription and miss your dinner. Continue reading DAP draws up a blue-printed for a new series of political and organisational initiatives for the next 18 months

A new impulse to the expansion of the DAP

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, to the meeting of DAP Members of Parliament and State Assemblymen held in Seremban on Sunday, 2nd July 1972 at 10.30 a.m.

A new impulse to the expansion of the DAP

At the annual dinner of DAP Central Executive Committee members, DAP Members of Parliament, State Assemblymen and State officials in Bukit Bintang on 8th April 1972, I had said: Continue reading A new impulse to the expansion of the DAP

Why the country and people need a strong and dedicated opposition party in Parliament

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at a Rembau-Tampin Parliamentary by-election public rally at Tampin New Village on 28th June 1972 at 9 p.m.

Why the country and people need a strong and dedicated opposition party in Parliament

The DAP has, over the last one year, demonstrated what a strong and dedicated Opposition Party in Parliament can do for the people.

For over 20 years, the 900,000 people in the 400-odd new villages in Malaysia had been neglected. They were starved of development funds, had no adequate health, social and educational facilities, no job opportunities for their youths, and were generally left to decay and die. Continue reading Why the country and people need a strong and dedicated opposition party in Parliament

Lim Kit Siang replies to Tun Ismail

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, when speaking to the Batu Pahat DAP Branch representatives on Saturday, June 24, 1972 at 7 p.m.

Lim Kit Siang replies to Tun Ismail

Tun Ismail, when speaking at the joint opening of UMNO Youth and Wanita annual delegates conference in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, has predicted the self-disintegration of DAP. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang replies to Tun Ismail

DAP’s participation in Rembau-Tampin by-election proof of DAP’s inner strength and basic resilience

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, when speaking to Malacca DAP State Sub-Committee and Branch representative on Friday, 23rd June 1972 at 7p.m.

DAP’s participation in Rembau-Tampin by-election proof of DAP’s inner strength and basic resilience

The DAP Central Executive Committee, on June 18, 1972, has started to purge the Party of destructive and disruptive elements in the Party.

Discipline should be fearlessly enforced in the Party, regardless of one’s position, officer or capability, if the DAP is to continue as a serious political movement. Continue reading DAP’s participation in Rembau-Tampin by-election proof of DAP’s inner strength and basic resilience