Category: Parliament

Mid-term Review: Second Malaysia Plan

We have been given a glowing review of the Mid-Term performance of the Second Malaysia Plan.

According to the Mid-Term Review, the GNP expanded by 11% annually at current prices during 1971-73. This was brought about by the fortuitous high prices for Malay sia’s export commodities such as rubber, timber, oil, which caused the high growth rate of 20 4% in 1973, in contrast to the moderate expansion in 1971 and 1972 when the GNP gew by 56% and 7.5% respectively.

The Mid-Term Review computes the output in real terms as 6.9% per year, on the basis of an average of 4.1% price increase per year, as compared to the Plan target of 6.8%. Continue reading Mid-term Review: Second Malaysia Plan

Questions for Oral and Written Answers during the coming Dewan Rakyat session

Press Statement by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang on 24th November 1973

The following questions for Oral and Written Answers during the coming Dewan Rakyat session beginning on 26.11.1973, have been submitted by the Opposition Leader and DAP Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang

QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWERS

1. To ask the Prime Minister to state the causes for the second rice shortage and high prices crisis this year, which started in September; why the LPN failed to anticipate and prevent the recurrences of the second rice crisis; and what action Government has taken to ensure that there will not be another rice crisis in the next few months.

2. To ask the Finance Minister to state what action his Ministry has taken or proposes to take to prevent importers from making a 100% or even higher profits which he has admitted is one of the major causes of inflation. Continue reading Questions for Oral and Written Answers during the coming Dewan Rakyat session

Lim Kit Siang submits 77 questions for Parliament

Lim Kit Siang submits 77 questions for Parliament

DAP member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, has submitted 77 questions to be answered in Parliament during the meeting beginning on August 8, 1972. There are 42 oral questions and 35 questions for written reply.

Mr. Lim has submitted a wide-ranging number of questions covering most aspects of government policy and national affairs. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang submits 77 questions for Parliament

Another act of strangulation of the democratic process

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Ra’ayat on the motion to amend the Standing Orders of the Dewan Ra’ayat on Wednesday, 10th May 1972.

Another act of strangulation of the democratic process

The motion in the name of the Finance minister, Tun Tan Siew Sin, on behalf of the Standing Orders Committee, seeks to the House Standing Orders by banning adjournment speeches during the first meeting of each session (i.e. the debate on the Royal Address) and during the Budget meeting. Continue reading Another act of strangulation of the democratic process

Mr.Lim Kit Siang propose to introduce three motions and five adjournment speeches

Press Statement by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, 3rd December 1971

DAP Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, has served notice that he proposes to introduce three motions and five adjournment speeches at the forthcoming session of Parliament beginning on December 8.

The three motions Mr. Lim has tabled are:

1. That this House Continue reading Mr.Lim Kit Siang propose to introduce three motions and five adjournment speeches

Question by Mr.Lim Kit Siang for the session of Parliament

Press Statement by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, 8th December 1971

The DAP member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, has submitted 100 questions, 29 for oral and 71 for written answers, for the forthcoming session of Parliament beginning on 8th December, 1971

His 29 oral questions are as follows:

1. To ask the Prime Minister to state the conditions on which the Malaysian government will establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. Continue reading Question by Mr.Lim Kit Siang for the session of Parliament

Public Rallies, DAP-MCA secret talks & Parliament

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Public Rally at Bandar Hilir Padang, Malacca, on Sunday, 1st August 1971 at 8pm

Public Rallies

This is not the first DAP public rally in Malacca after the 1969 General Elections, but the second one.

The people of Malacca will remember that two days after polling day, on May 12, 1969, the DAP held a victory rally at this very padang after a victory and thank-the-voters procession round the town the same afternoon. Continue reading Public Rallies, DAP-MCA secret talks & Parliament

Call to government to release Second Malaysia Plan to MPs and to give them ample time to study the Plan before Parliamentary debate

Extracts of Closing speech by DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at the two-day DAP MPs’ seminar on Economic Development in Malaysia” held on Klang on 19th and 20th June 1971

Call to government to release Second Malaysia Plan to MPs and to give them ample time to study the Plan before Parliamentary debate
Parliament is to meet in two weeks time to debate and approve the Second Malaysia Five-Year Plan, which will play down the economic future of the country for the next five years,

But till today, Members of Parliament have not received copies of the Second Five-Year Plan. Continue reading Call to government to release Second Malaysia Plan to MPs and to give them ample time to study the Plan before Parliamentary debate

A letter to Dewan Rakyat Speaker- Informing the Boycott Action

DEMOCRATIC ACTION PARTY

MALAYSIA

COPY

11.3.71

The Speaker,

Dewan Ra’ayat,

Parliament.

Sir,

I have been instructed by my Parliament Group of 13 DAP Members of Parliament to lodge an official protest against the unfair allocation of time for DAP Members in he Constitution Amendment Bill debate and in the debate on the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s Royal Address. Continue reading A letter to Dewan Rakyat Speaker- Informing the Boycott Action

Contemptible Parliamentary Tactics

Contemptible Parliamentary Tactics

West Malaysian Members of Parliament were informed today tat their notices of questions for oral and written answers and motions submitted in the English language have been rejected.

In a letter to MPs today, the clerk to the Dewan Ra’ayat, Inche Ahmad bin Abdullah, said these notices must be in Bahasa Malaysia in
accordance with the provisions of the National Language Act, 1967.

The National Language Act, 1967 does not prohibit MPs from submitting notices of questions and motions in English.

In fact, MPs had good reasons to believe that English could be used in notices of question and motions. Continue reading Contemptible Parliamentary Tactics