G3: Lim Kit Siang claims that forty two years ago, he moved a motion for MPs to vacate their seats within 30 days if they resign or were expelled from their parties (see news item below).
Actually, the wrinkled old prune has been saying a lot of things ever since he decided to wage war against the Malay-Muslims some 50 years ago.
Not only did he question the rights of Malays, he questioned the need to turn Banasa Melayu into the national language, demonised every other Prime Minister the country has ever seen and claimed religiously that the country was going bankrupt.
In the late seventies, it was because of Hussein Onn. In the eighties and nineties, it was due to Mahathir. In 2006, it was due to Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. In 2017, it was because of Najib Razak.
And now that the country is actually going bankrupt thanks to his Finance Minister of a son, he has suddenly developed a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease.
This disease has made him forget the countless times he referred to Mahathir as a dictator, a despot, a fanatic, an extremist and what have you.
The disease is also preventing him from seeking the very RCIs he sought for into the BMF, Memali, Maminco, Makuwasa, Bank Negara and Perwaja scandals back in the eighties and nineties.
Raggie Jessy Rithaudeen
ISKANDAR PUTERI: An anti-hoping law should be enacted to stop MPs from switching parties, says Lim Kit Siang.
The DAP adviser said he moved a motion in 1976 for MPs to vacate their seat within 30 days if they resign or were expelled from their parties.
“There should also be a by-election for MPs to renew their mandate as they were previously voted in via a different party ticket.
“That is the Bill I had proposed 40 years ago and I still stand by it,” he said during the Impian Malaysia Environment and Sustainable Development Education camp here yesterday.
Lim said Umno politicians wanting to join Pakatan Harapan should first repent as they had previously supported former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak and 1Malaysia Development Bhd.
He said these Umno leaders should first come out with statements admitting to their mistakes first.
“If they were previously involved in corruption or any abuse of power, they should come forward and face justice first,” he added.
When asked if DAP would accept Barisan National defectors wanting to join the party, Lim said it was a question for the future.
“That is a hypothetical question and we will only consider it if they have come out openly to condemn Najib and 1MDB. Then, we can talk.”
In a separate statement Lim said Najib’s expulsion from Umno could have been the only way to salvage the party.
But the move, he said, might be too late because more Umno leaders were expected to leave the party.
On Friday, Najib posted on his Facebook that he was disappointed with the exodus but added Umno was undergoing a “natural cleansing”.
Lim noted that the Dec 8 anti-Icerd (International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) rally by PAS and Umno acted as a catalyst for Umno’s implosion.
Source: The Star Online
