Category: Kelantan

DAP deplores IGP’s Kota Bharu statement and calls on him to take immediate action to ensure that public do not feel they are entering ”a lion’s den” when going to police stations to lodge reports against the police

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, issued on Friday, 27th November l98l

DAP deplores IGP’s Kota Bharu statement and calls on him to take immediate action to ensure that public do not feel they are entering ”a lion’s den” when going to police stations to lodge reports against the police

The Kota Bharu statement by the Inspector General of Police, Tan Sri Haniff Omar, that certain groups were magnifying the issue of police brutality for their own political and self-interest is most regrettable and deplorable. Continue reading DAP deplores IGP’s Kota Bharu statement and calls on him to take immediate action to ensure that public do not feel they are entering ”a lion’s den” when going to police stations to lodge reports against the police

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.

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

NOC rule in Kelantan

I rise with a heavy heart, for what Parliament is about to do by invoking Article 150 of the Federal Constitution to suspend the Kelantan State Constitution and impose NOC-type of rule in the State is a subversion of the democratic basis of the Malaysian Constitution.

If parliamentary democracy and the Federal-State system is to survive, it is paramount that those in power realise and understand that whatever the political differences or however intense the party rivalries, democratic principles and the fundamental safeguards in the Constitution for a democratic society should not be sacrificed in the furtherance of partisan political interests. Continue reading NOC rule in Kelantan

The Kelantan political crisis has been allowed to deteriorate for far too long. The best solution is the dissolution of the Kelantan State Assembly to give the people – the final judges in a democratic system – to decide who is to form the new government.

Statement by Lim Kit Siang, Parliamentary Opposition Leader DAP Secretary General issued on 29th October, 1977

The Kelantan political crisis has been allowed to deteriorate for far too long. The best solution is the dissolution of the Kelantan State Assembly to give the people – the final judges in a democratic system – to decide who is to form the new government.

I call on PAS and UMNO to agree to the dissolution of the Kelantan State Government to solve the political crisis in Kelantan. Continue reading The Kelantan political crisis has been allowed to deteriorate for far too long. The best solution is the dissolution of the Kelantan State Assembly to give the people – the final judges in a democratic system – to decide who is to form the new government.