Category: Development

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

Cult of Government Secrecy

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on the 11981 First Supplementary Estimates in the Dewan Rakyat on Thursday, April 9, 1981

Call on the Government not to hide behind the cult of secrecy to deny meaningful and effective Parliamentary control of public expenditures, especially multi-million dollar expenditures in defence, as it would be the mother of corruption, inefficiency and incompetence

The first 1981 supplementary development estimates, in asking for an additional vote for $4,294 million, probably makes history as the biggest supplementary vote ever to be asked by the Government since Merdeka in 1957. This is the result of the approval of the Fourth Malaysia Plan on Monday. Continue reading Cult of Government Secrecy

The Fourth Malaysia Plan

(Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when speaking on the Fourth Malaysia Plan in the Dewan Rakyat on Monday, 30th March 1981)

The success of Fourth Malaysia Plan will depend on whether it could inspire and commit the energies, talents and resource of all Malaysians, regardless of race, to the challenge of building a united, peaceful, just and prosperous Malaysia

Firstly, I wish to congratulate the Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, on his speedy recovery from his open-heart surgery, and I commend he gets ample rest before he returns to the rigours of his office. Continue reading The Fourth Malaysia Plan

The Puchong mind landslide

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on March 26, 1981 when adjourning the Dewan Rakyat on ‘a matter of urgent, definite, public importance’ ie to debate the Kampong Kandan Mining landslide disaster where 20 people were buried alive and about 75 houses destroyed)

I stand up to move the adjournment of the House to discuss a matter of definite, urgent, public importance, namely the mining landslide disaster at Kampong Kandan at 8½ mile, Jalan Puchong, Kuala Lumpur, where at least 20 people, including children, have been buried alive together with the collapse of about 10 houses, involving the destruction of a further 65 houses in the adjoining areas, making it one of the worst mining disaster in the country.

The Kampong Kandan mining disaster is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster. It is apparent that there has been negligence in many quarters involving the mining company, Capitol Mining Sdn. Bhd., the Mining Department and even the State Government of Selangor. Continue reading The Puchong mind landslide

Call on Malaysians to be politically committed to defend and safeguard their constitutional, political, economic, educational and cultural right from being eroded away or like in Mengkarak new village in Pahang

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when officially declaring open the Raub DAP Branch premises in Raub, Pahang, on Sunday, 22nd March 1981 at 4.30 pm

Call on Malaysians to be politically committed to defend and safeguard their constitutional, political, economic, educational and cultural right from being eroded away or like in Mengkarak new village in Pahang, where a tarred road has become a dirt road.

Yesterday, together with the National Deputy Chairman, Sdr. Ibrahim Singgeh, CEC Member Sdr. Lau Dak Lee, Pahang State DAP Chairman, Sdr. Lim Yin Hong and Special Assistant to Secretary-General, Sdr. Tai Sin Piaw, I visited Mengkarak new village in Pahang for the first time. Continue reading Call on Malaysians to be politically committed to defend and safeguard their constitutional, political, economic, educational and cultural right from being eroded away or like in Mengkarak new village in Pahang

Call on Selangor State Government to provide basic social infrastructures of piped water, sanitation and low-cost housing for the 6,000 people in Kampong Medan Jaya, Batu 8 ¼, Jalan Klang Lama

By Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, DAP MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang on Saturday, 10th January 1982:

Call on Selangor State Government to provide basic social infrastructures of piped water, sanitation and low-cost housing for the 6,000 people in Kampong Medan Jaya, Batu 8 ¼, Jalan Klang Lama

Accompanied by the DAP State Assemblyman for Kajang, Sdr. Liew Ah Kim, DAP Assemblyman for Kuala Kubu Baru, Pan Su Peng, and Petaling Jaya DAP branch officials, I visited the Kampong Medan Jaya Batu 8 1/4 , Jalan Klang Lama area, yesterday, (near Guinness Stout factory)

In Kampong Medan Jaya, the residents, who are mostly low-income people from the working and lower government class, live without the basic social infrastructure of adequate piped water, sanitation and hygienic living condition. Continue reading Call on Selangor State Government to provide basic social infrastructures of piped water, sanitation and low-cost housing for the 6,000 people in Kampong Medan Jaya, Batu 8 ¼, Jalan Klang Lama

Call on Malaysia Government to treat all Malaysians of Post-Merdeka generation as Bumiputeras

Call on Malaysia Government to treat all Malaysians of Post-Merdeka generation as Bumiputeras

Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, has called on the Malaysian Government to recognise and treat all Malaysian of the Post-Merdeka generation as Bumiputeras.

Mr. Lim was speaking to a capacity crowd of Malaysian students at La Trobe University, Melbourne, the third consecutive night he spoke to Malaysian students. The previous two nights, Mr. Lim spoke to Malaysian students in Monash University and Melbourne University. Continue reading Call on Malaysia Government to treat all Malaysians of Post-Merdeka generation as Bumiputeras

DAP calls for land reforms in Kelantan to ensure that the landless in Kelantan can own their own land and houses to give them a stake in the future of the state and country.

Speech Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Kota Bahru DAP Branch first anniversary dinner held at Restaurant Kesia in Kota Bahru on Friday, 5th September 1980 at 8pm.

DAP calls for land reforms in Kelantan to ensure that the landless in Kelantan can own their own land and houses to give them a stake in the future of the state and country.

Rural poverty in Kelantan, Trengganu, Kedah and Perlis is most acute in Peninsular Malaysia, and one of the major causes of rural poverty is landlessness. Continue reading DAP calls for land reforms in Kelantan to ensure that the landless in Kelantan can own their own land and houses to give them a stake in the future of the state and country.

DAP calls for correction of fundamental New Economic Policy implementation defects

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the 1980 Budget on October 22, 1979)

The 1980 Budget, presented by the Finance Minister, Tengku Razaleigh, has been generally well-received by the press and the people, in particular with regard to the long overdue increase of personal relief’s for individual taxpayers.

The DAP had consistently called for the upward revision of personal tax reliefs for individuals in this House, as the repeated bouts of inflation and the loss of the purchasing power of the ringgit since the formulation of the income tax laws in the 1940s have made the reliefs derisory! Although long overdue, we commend the Finance Minister for at long last taking heed of the crushing burden borne by the lower income brackets by revising the income tax personal reliefs to more realistic levels. Continue reading DAP calls for correction of fundamental New Economic Policy implementation defects

State revenue growth grants

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Revenue Growth Grants Amendment Bill 1979 on October 11, 1979)

One of the economic imbalances in the country is the imbalance of economic growth between the states, and any Federal Government effort to rectify the economic imbalance between states will get full DAP support.

At present the most economically backward states, from the stand-point of per capita Gross Domestic Product for each state is Kelantan, which has only a ratio of 0.38 of the Malaysian per capita GDP, Kedah/Perlis which has a ratio of 0.54 of the Malaysian average, and Trengganu which has a ratio of 0.60. Continue reading State revenue growth grants