The UMNO-enforced settlement of the MCA party crisis is the strongest indicator of early general elections

A Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at,the meeting of
national and state leaders of DAP, DAPSY, Wanita DAP, MPs and Assemblyman held at Hotel Malaya on Saturday, Feb. 2, 1985 at 10 am.

The UMNO-enforced settlement of the MCA party crisis is the strongest indicator of early general elections.

The UMNO enforced settlement of the MCA power struggle is the strongest indicator to date that there would be early general elections, which could be held, anytime from August this year onwards. Continue reading The UMNO-enforced settlement of the MCA party crisis is the strongest indicator of early general elections

Call on Dr. Tan Tiong Hong to condemn and dissociate himself from the Wanita MCA house-to-house campaign to scare the voters of a May 13 incident if the DAP wins Raub by-election

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Raub by-election ceramah at Sungei Lui New Village on Sunday, 29th May 1983 at 8 pm.

Call on Dr. Tan Tiong Hong to condemn and dissociate himself from the Wanita MCA house-to-house campaign to scare the voters of a May 13 incident if the DAP wins Raub by-election.

It is now a traditional MCA election or by-election practice to bring out all the weapons of smear, scare or threat tactics during the last week of the election campaign. Continue reading Call on Dr. Tan Tiong Hong to condemn and dissociate himself from the Wanita MCA house-to-house campaign to scare the voters of a May 13 incident if the DAP wins Raub by-election

Lee San Choon, having led the five million Chinese up the garden path with his Seremban victory, had absconded from his responsibility when he is unable to give meaning and content to the MCA’s ‘political breakthrough’

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at a meeting of DAP Branches in Seremban Parliamentary Constituency at Temiang DAP Branch premises, Seremban, on Tuesday, 29.3.1983 at 8 p.m.

Lee San Choon, having led the five million Chinese up the garden path with his Seremban victory, had absconded from his responsibility when he is unable to give meaning and content to the MCA’s ‘political breakthrough’

Datuk Lee San Choon’s resignation as MCA President and Cabinet Minister is still the subject of speculation and discussion as to whether Datuk Lee resigned voluntarily, and if so why, or whether he was forced out by external forces. Continue reading Lee San Choon, having led the five million Chinese up the garden path with his Seremban victory, had absconded from his responsibility when he is unable to give meaning and content to the MCA’s ‘political breakthrough’

Call on MCA, Gerakan, SUPP and Berjaya Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries and MPs who are prepared to support a parliamentary motion to affirm that the lion dance is part of Malaysian culture to contact me or make public their position within the next 48 hours

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the official opening of the Chamek DAP Branch at Chamek New Village, Johore, on Sunday, Nov. 21, 1982 at 6 p.m.

Call on MCA, Gerakan, SUPP and Berjaya Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries and MPs who are prepared to support a parliamentary motion to affirm that the lion dance is part of Malaysian culture to contact me or make public their position within the next 48 hours

As a result of the MCA’s ‘breakthrough’ in the April general elections, another development most adverse to the basic political, economic, educational, social and cultural rights of Malaysian Chinese had happened. Last Friday, the Acting Culture, Youth and Sports Minister, Adib Adam, declared in Parliament that the lion dance could not be accepted as part of Malaysian culture because it is not accepted by all racial groups in the country. Continue reading Call on MCA, Gerakan, SUPP and Berjaya Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries and MPs who are prepared to support a parliamentary motion to affirm that the lion dance is part of Malaysian culture to contact me or make public their position within the next 48 hours

Call on the MCA Central Committee to endorse and fight for the Kepayang Declaration to reject a Malaysia of ‘one language and one culture’

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Lim Kit Siang, at a Kepayang by-election thanksgiving party for election workers held at St. John Ambulance Hall in Ipoh on Saturday, Oct. 23, 1982 at 8 pm

Call on the MCA Central Committee to endorse and fight for the Kepayang Declaration to reject a Malaysia of ‘one language and one culture’

The Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, said on Thursday that the DAP won in Kepayang by-election last weekend because the Kepayang voters wanted to keep the DAP alive, and that the DAP “has nothing more to offer and it just wants to live.” Continue reading Call on the MCA Central Committee to endorse and fight for the Kepayang Declaration to reject a Malaysia of ‘one language and one culture’

DAP to expose the MCA and Gerakan’s ‘five steps backward, two steps forward’ political role in the 1982 general elections

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Chinese Rocket Weekly inaugural issue ceremony held at Transport Workers’ Union Hall on Saturday, 27.3.1982 at 3 pm.

DAP to expose the MCA and Gerakan’s ‘five steps backward, two steps forward’ political role in the 1982 general elections

The inaugural appearance of the first issue of the new Chinese- language Rocket Weekly on the eve of the 1982 general elections is most significant, for it would help to pierce the ever-growing Barisan control and ownership of local newspapers in the country. Continue reading DAP to expose the MCA and Gerakan’s ‘five steps backward, two steps forward’ political role in the 1982 general elections

Challenge to Datuk Lee San Choon to stand in anyone of 12 designated seas to demonstrate that the MCA is qualified to claim that it represents the five million Chinese in the country.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling , Lim Kit Siang, at the Petaling DAP Liaison Committee meeting to prepare for the 1982 general elections held at Petaling Jaya on Wednesday, March 24, 1982 at 8 pm

Challenge to Datuk Lee San Choon to stand in anyone of 12 designated seas to demonstrate that the MCA is qualified to claim that it represents the five million Chinese in the country.

With the 1982 general elections around the corner, the MCA leaders are going up and down the country calling on the Malaysian Chinese to give political support to the MCA. Continue reading Challenge to Datuk Lee San Choon to stand in anyone of 12 designated seas to demonstrate that the MCA is qualified to claim that it represents the five million Chinese in the country.

The problem with the MCA is not that it is a horse without enough grass to carry loads a far distance, but that it is a perverse horse which throws off and tramples on the goods it had been entrusted to carry

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Selat Klang DAP Branch Dinner to commemorate the Party’s 15th Anniversary held at Pandamaran New Village on Tuesday, 1st December 1981 at 8 pm

The problem with the MCA is not that it is a horse without enough grass to carry loads a far distance, but that it is a perverse horse which throws off and tramples on the goods it had been entrusted to carry

At the Jalan Cheras Taman Maluri MCA Branch dinner on Sunday, the MCA President, Datuk Lee San Choon, boasted that the MCA is the world’s third biggest Chinese party. Continue reading The problem with the MCA is not that it is a horse without enough grass to carry loads a far distance, but that it is a perverse horse which throws off and tramples on the goods it had been entrusted to carry

Three reasons why Haji Suhaimi wants the Malaysian Chinese to support Barisan parties like MCA and Gerakan against the DAP.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Circular Road DAP Branch dinner to commemorate the DAP’s 15th Anniversary held at the multi-storeyed car park Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday, 24th November, 1981 at 8 p.m.

Three reasons why Haji Suhaimi wants the Malaysian Chinese to support Barisan parties like MCA and Gerakan against the DAP.

The UMNO Youth Leader, Haji Suhaimi Kamaruddin, said in Butterworth on Sunday that the Chinese community should not support the DAP, but must support instead Barisan component parties like MCA and Gerakan. Continue reading Three reasons why Haji Suhaimi wants the Malaysian Chinese to support Barisan parties like MCA and Gerakan against the DAP.

Is the Instant Mee Scandal becoming a PAC Scandal?

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when declaring open the Selangor Federal Territory DAP Political Course held at DAP PJ premises in Damansara Utama on Saturday, Sept. 26 at 2.30 p.m.

Is the Instant Mee Scandal becoming a PAC Scandal?

After yesterday’s Public Accounts Committee meeting, the PAC Chairman, Datuk Lee Boon Peng, made the shocking announcement that the PAC had abandoned its inquiries into the Instant Mee Scandal, and had instead, passed the buck back to the Ministry of Defence by directing it to set up a board of inquiry into it. Continue reading Is the Instant Mee Scandal becoming a PAC Scandal?