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PETALING JAYA: A systematic campaign of toxic lies and falsehoods to polarize the racial and religious situation in the country was used by certain political parties to poison the minds of Malays after GE14, claims veteran DAP leader Lim Kit Siang.
Calling for a new nation-building process for Malaysia, MP Iskandar Puteri said a new consensus was urgently needed to make Malaysia great again and not condemn it to become the “Venezuela or Zimbabwe of Asia.”
He said the current extremely toxic development was engineered by Umno and his allies during the reign of Pakatan Harapan (PH) to make Malaysians believe that their rights, dignity and future were at stake unless the party returned to power.
“The Malays received false news that PH was nothing more than a DAP government and the then Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, was a party puppet. They even blatantly lied that DAP was anti-Malay, anti-Islam, anti-sultans and had a communist ideology.
“As a result, the nation became a battleground between Malay politics and Malay politics, further polarizing Malaysians,” he said in a statement today.
He said that in view of the great political toxicity in the nation now, an honest commitment from all sectors was necessary to lead the nation on the right path.
“If Malays drop hooks, line up and sink in the face of these lies, falsehoods and false news, all Malays, be they Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Iban and Orang Asli, will be the victims.
“We can only become a world-class nation if we take advantage of our unique position as the confluence of four great civilizations in the world. It is never too late to restart nation building policies, ”he said.
Lim added that if the policies of Malaysian politics and hegemony had succeeded in the past 50 years in uplifting the Malaysian masses, many ordinary Malays would not be so poor and insecure today.
“For obvious reasons, there are those who do not want a new national consensus for Malaysia and are doing everything possible to sabotage its birth.
“I met with Anwar Ibrahim on Friday and assured him that the DAP had never proposed a change of opposition leader. But I said that the opposition must move in a new direction to consolidate all the opposition forces through a new national consensus, ”he said.
Lim urged government leaders to listen to the call of a group of 25 prominent Malays, including former senior public officials, judges, ambassadors and academics, to speak out against the extremist and intolerant voices that seem to dominate these days.
“Unfortunately, no one heard this call from Malaysia six years ago,” he said, adding that it should be revised to be used as a basis for rebuilding the nation and making it great again.
