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MP SPEAKS | In his interview with China Press, former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said: “I helped the opposition win (in the 2018 general election) because I brought the support of the Malays. You know, DAP, who was never able to get more than 18 seats, (got) 42 seats because of the Malaysian support that I brought. “
Mahathir was wrong when he said that without his help, the DAP could not win more than 18 seats, as the DAP won 24 parliamentary seats in 1986, 20 seats in 1990, 28 seats in 2008 and 38 seats in 2013 before winning 42 seats. parliamentarians in 2018.
Although the DAP had been demonized by lies, falsehoods, and fake news as anti-Malays, anti-Islamist, and anti-Malays rulers for the past five decades, the DAP had been committed since its formation in 1966 to a multiracial and multiracial politics. -a linguistic, multi-religious and multi-cultural Malaysian target and had never been against any race, religion or monarchical system in Malaysia.
We want every person in Malaysia, be it Malay, Chinese, Indian, Kadazan or Iban, to have a Malaysian conscience, identity and purpose.
DAP created history in Malaysia when a DAP leader went to jail and lost his qualification as a MP for the dignity and honor of an underage Malay girl, Lim Guan Eng, when he was a MP from Kota Melaka.
In the 1969 general election, two Malaysian leaders of the DAP were elected as state assemblymen, and before the general elections of 1974, he had announced that if the DAP had taken power in Perak state, the DAP state assemblyman for Tapah Road, Ibrahim Singgeh I know the Perak menteri kiss.
DAP deputies and state assemblymen included Ahmad Nor, Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz, Zairil Khir Johari (ex-Penang State), Tengku Zulpuri Shah Raja Puji (ex-Deputy Minister of Water, Land and Natural Resources), Ariffin Omar, Syerleena Abdul Rashid, Abdul Aziz bin Bari (Perak opposition leader), Young Syefura Othman, Sheikh ‘Umar Bagharib Ali (ex-Johore), Fadzlan Yahya, Mohd Salleh Nakhoda Itam, Daeng Ibrahim and Hassan Ahmad.
In 1969, I was asked what DAP meant and I reduced the DAP targets to five points, namely:
(i) That Malaysia is a multiracial, multilingual and multicultural society and that a viable Malay nation can only be formed if all races and groups in the country have the same interest under the Malaysian sun.
(ii) That in a multiracial society like Malaysia, violence and any ideology of force, as advocated by the Communist Party of Malaya, can only lead to the disintegration of the country because it would rapidly degenerate into a racial conflict. Force and violence in all its forms must be deplored.
(iii) That in a multi-racial Malaysian society, if any racial group feels that it is backward, whether it be educational, economic, cultural, linguistic or political, it will create racial antagonism. Every effort should be made to eliminate these imbalances between races and groups.
(iv) That poverty is not a communal problem. It is a socioeconomic problem, and to consider poverty as a racial problem is to increase racial antagonism in the country.
(v) Establish a clean, honest, efficient, incorruptible and effective government.
DAP has stayed true to these five principles for the past 55 years, and that is why the DAP will adhere to these principles and will not work with the kleptocratic leaders of Umno, who have specifically expanded from two to three people in the domain. public.
With the diabolical campaign of disinformation, lies, falsehoods and fake news, which intensified in the last 12 years since 2008, that the DAP was anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Malay ruler, we faced an uphill battle for beat the support of the Malays, but we have never abandoned this challenge.
I admit that Mahathir helped DAP win 42 parliamentary seats in the 2018 general election, but to say that DAP failed to win more than 18 parliamentary seats is totally wrong.
In his interview, Umno veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah revived Burhanuddin al-Helmy’s idea of giving “Malaysian citizenship” to everyone, regardless of race.
As I said yesterday in my 2021 New Years Message, Malaysians must learn the lessons of why we are lagging behind other countries.
We must press ahead with a new national consensus to return to the quest for a great world-class nation and escape the fate and ignominy of a kleptocracy, kakistocracy, and a failed state.
As Dr. Mohamed Rafick Khan rightly said in his last comment entitled “This is not Malaya or Malaya Malaysia”.
Let’s move on with the times.
The first step is for all Malaysians to agree that they should consider themselves Malaysians, and that the motto of all Malaysians should be “Malaysia, unite” and not “Malaysians, unite”, “Chinese,” , “Indians,”, “Ibans,” ”Or“ Kadazans Unite ”.
Only then can we achieve a Bangsa Malaysia as envisioned in the failed Vision 2020.
LIM KIT SIANG is Iskandar Puteri’s DAP MP.
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