Category: National Unity Advisory Panel

Alex Lee would dare to tell MCA to drop ‘Chinese’ from its name, but would he dare to tell UMNO to drop ‘Malay’ from its name?

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 30th May 1991:

Alex Lee would dare to tell MCA to drop ‘Chinese’ from its name, but would he dare to tell UMNO to drop ‘Malay’ from its name?

Deputy National Unity and Social Development Minister Datuk Alex Lee said on Tuesday that the government was studying the possibility of barring registration of societies and associations whose names bear racial connotations. Continue reading Alex Lee would dare to tell MCA to drop ‘Chinese’ from its name, but would he dare to tell UMNO to drop ‘Malay’ from its name?

The first meaningful task of the National Unity Advisory Panel is to find out why its predecessors in the past 25 years had been utterly ineffective and irrelevant to the problems and issue of national unity

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Perak DAP State Interim Committee meeting held in Ipoh on Tuesday, 28th May 1991 at 8 pm.

The first meaningful task of the National Unity Advisory Panel is to find out why its predecessors in the past 25 years had been utterly ineffective and irrelevant to the problems and issue of national unity.

The first meaningful task of the newly-formed 33-member National Unity Advisory Panel is to find out why its predecessors in the past 25 years had been utterly ineffective and irrelevant to the problems and issue of national unity. Continue reading The first meaningful task of the National Unity Advisory Panel is to find out why its predecessors in the past 25 years had been utterly ineffective and irrelevant to the problems and issue of national unity

Ten Basis for National Unity

The 2M Government’s call for an efficient and competent administrator cannot succeed unless Parliament, as well as Ministers and Deputy Ministers, set an example of efficiency and competence.

I am concerned that Ministry and Deputy Ministers are becoming slipshod in their work, showing lack of grasp and sometimes total ignorance of their Ministerial responsibility, and when they do this in Parliament, they are not only doing their Ministerial posts a disservice, they are also showing Parliament no respect. Continue reading Ten Basis for National Unity

A decade of unity and reconciliation

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the debate on Royal Address on March 18, 1980)

I rise to support the Motion of Thanks to His Majesty for His Gracious Address to both Houses of Parliament yesterday.

His Majesty, at the outset of His Gracious Address, rightly reminded us that this session takes place during a historically significant period. We are entering the decade of the Eighties. This year is also the last year of the Third Malaysia Plan and the mid-way mark of the 20-year Perspective New Economic Policy of the Government.
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Democratisation of Malaysian Life

From the Yang diPertuan Agong’s Royal Address, we are confirmed in our belief that the Government has not come to grips with the basic political, economic, social, cultural and educational policies to drift towards national perdition.

There is no vision of a great Malaysia tomorrow. There is only petty pre-occupation with the tools of power today.

Slogan-shouting has taken command of the seats of government, displacing thinking and reason. Continue reading Democratisation of Malaysian Life