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PETALING JAYA: Sarawak DAP Chief Chong Chieng Jen has urged GPS Leader Abang Johari Openg not to jeopardize the future of Sarawak and Malaysia because of his personal feelings against DAP leader Lim Guan Eng.
Chong said in a statement today that “we, the people of Sarawak, should be very concerned that Sarawak is ruled by such leaders for whom personal feelings reign over the national public interest.”
He was referring to comments by Abang Johari in Miri yesterday that an insulting comment by Lim had caused GPS, the ruling coalition in Sarawak, to back PAS and Umno in the formation of the federal government.
Lim, who is the secretary general of the DAP, would have said, while he was finance minister in the previous federal government, that Sarawak could go bankrupt in 3 years with GPS.
Chong said Lim’s comment could be seen as a warning against the extravagance of GPS in the proposed mega-projects.
“Although Abang Jo constantly boasts of Sarawak’s RM31 billion reserves, it did not highlight the multibillion ringgit debts of state government companies,” Chong said.
GPS support for the PAS-Umno alliance had resulted in a resurgence of religious conservatism and intolerance, Chong said, citing recent comments by PAS politicians on the Bible, suggested pub closures, segregation in cinemas and a new attack on vernacular schools.
Chong said the GPS error in allowing Umno and PAS to come to federal power had now threatened the country’s secularism. He predicted that Sarawak’s religious freedom and racial harmony would eventually suffer.
