#kerajaangagal11 – Call for public  inquiry into the death of A. Ganapathy

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The mysterious death of A. Ganapathy warrants the establishment of a public inquiry to reveal its actual  circumstances and  cause.

I welcome the MIC proposal  for an independent investigation into the death of A. Ganapathy, whose legs were amputated and later died after being detained by the police.

The MIC call was made by the MIC Vice President Sivarraajh Chandran who said yesterday that the incident proved the importance of setting up the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC).

The death of Ganapathy occurred almost one month after being admitted to the Selayang Hospital’s intensive care unit following his arrest by police to assist an investigation.

The deceased’s mother claimed that her son was denied his right to receive medical treatment, and he was beaten, resulting in a serious injury while he was in detention.

Forty-year-old A Ganapathy was arrested on Feb 24 to facilitate an investigation into a sibling who was wanted by the police.

He was released on March 8 but was admitted to Selayang Hospital’s intensive care unit.

His 60-year-old mother, S Thanaletchumy, said her son told her that police had beaten him with a rubber hose.

His family claimed Ganapathy’s health deteriorated because of his stint in police custody, resulting in his leg being swollen and bruised as though he had been beaten.

Ganapathy had worked as a trader selling cow’s milk and had two children aged five and seven years old.

The question now is whether the MIC Minister, the Minister for Human Resources, Datuk Seri Saravanan Murugan will ensure that the Cabinet later today will set up such an public inquiry into Ganapathy’s death as well reaffirm that the Muhyiddin government remains  as committed as in the past to establishing an IPCMC – a pledge that  Muhyiddin  gave when he was still the home affairs minister under the Pakatan Harapan government.

In fact, Muhyiddin as  home minister had undertaken that the IPCMC would be set up by the end of 2019 – a proposal first made by the Royal Commission of Inquiry on  Police Reforms  in  2004!

Three Prime Ministers have come and gone, and the fourth Prime Minister who had committed himself to set up the IPCMC is dragging his feet on the matter.

Can the MIC Minister explain why after the Cabinet meeting today?

Yesterday, I said that the RM50,000 fine for the Kota Bharu burger seller, Wan Mohd Faisal Kadir, 38, of who operates a stall in front of his house at Kampung Rambutan Rendang, Kota Bharu,  is evidence of the prevailing kakistocracy under the Muhyiddin government.

Can the Cabinet substitute the harsh and unconscionable fine of RM50,000 with a stern  warning to Wan Faisal that he would be fined if he breaches the movement control order again.

The harsh RM10,000 fines imposed on individuals and RM50,000 fines on companies were imposed under the Emergency (Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases)(Amendment) Ordinance 2021 which came into effect on March 11, 2021.

After more than a month of operation of the Ordinance, if even the Police do not  fully understand the new emergency regulations, as claimed by the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, it is a significant sign of a kakistocratic government at work  fighting the Covid-19 pandemic?

No wonder that Malaysia is not one of the countries in East  Asia and the Pacific which had performed well in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Malaysia must pull itself up by the bootstraps so that we could be one of the better performing nations in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

End the Emergency and convene Parliament to spearhead an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” strategy and approach  so that we can perform better in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and not trail behind other countries like Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, UAE, Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Thailand and Saudi Arabia.

Yesterday was the 13th straight day where daily increase of new Covid-19 cases have logged more than 2,000 cases, recording 2,733 cases,  bringing the cumulative total to 398,451 cases.

Malaysia is now at the crossroads of the Covid-19 pandemic. Are we to beat down the 13 straight days of daily increases of over 2,000 cases to below the 2,000-mark or whether the daily increase of Covid-19 cases are to surge beyond the 3,000-mark to herald the full swing of the fourth Covid-19 wave in Malaysia?

If the current spate of daily increase of new Covid-19 cases burst through the 3,000-mark, then it marks the utter failure of the proclamation of emergency and the susp-ension of Parliament purportedly to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.

We are now ranked No. 44 among countries in the world  at this rate of daily increase, we likely to  overtake Bulgaria (399,259 cases) to be ranked No. 43 tomorrow and overtake Saudi Arabia (414,219 cases) by early May to be ranked No. 42 in the world.

Why is Malaysia continuing to overtake other countries in the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases?

If the current spate of daily increase of new Covid-19 cases burst through the 3,000-mark, then it marks the utter failure of the proclamation of emergency and the susp-ension of Parliament purportedly to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Muhyiddin government should resign for incompetence, ineptitude and violation of Malaysian Constitution and Rukun Negara if it could not bring the third Covid-19 wave under full control and the daily increase surges to beyond 3,000 cases with the fourth Covid-19 wave in full swing.

Yesterday, Parliamentary Opposition Leader and PKR President, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was questioned by the police over a purported recording of a telephone conversation with UMNO President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

In the latest recording that lasted four minutes and 17 seconds, a voice of a person who sounded like Anwar praised the person who sounded like Zahid over the latter’s handling of the Umno general assembly.

Anwar was questioned under Section 505(b) of the Penal Code.

But the question is why circulated audio recordings which allegedly contained the voices of Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin and Home Minister, Hamzah Zainuddin,  concerning bribery of MPs, was  not questioned by the police.

Is the Police aware that it is doing itself in terms of credibility and trustworthiness no favours  with such double standards?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Wednesday, 28th April 2021)

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#kerajaangagal11 — Seruan untuk siasatan bebas mengenai kematian A Ganapathy

Kematian misteri A. Ganapathy memerlukan pembentukan sebuah siasatan bebas untuk mencari punca dan sebab sebenar kematian beliau.

Saya mengalu-alukan cadangan MIC untuk penyiasatan bebas mengenai kematian A. Ganapathy, yang kakinya telah diamputasi dan kemudian meninggal dunia setelah ditahan oleh polis.

Seruan MIC dibuat oleh Naib Presiden MIC Sivarraajh Chandran yang mengatakan semalam bahawa kejadian itu membuktikan pentingnya pembentukan Suruhanjaya Bebas Pengaduan dan Salah Laku Polis (IPCMC).

Ganapathy meninggal dunia kira-kira sebulan selepas dimasukkan ke unit rawatan rapi Hospital Selayang selepas beliau ditahan oleh pihak polis untuk membantu siasatan.

Ibu si mati mendakwa bahawa anaknya dinafikan haknya untuk mendapatkan rawatan perubatan, dan dia dipukul, mengakibatkan kecederaan parah ketika di dalam tahanan.

A Ganapathy yang berusia empat puluh tahun ditangkap pada 24 Februari untuk membantu siasatan mengenai ahli keluarga yang dikehendaki oleh polis.

Dia dibebaskan pada 8 Mac tetapi dimasukkan ke unit rawatan rapi Hospital Selayang.

Ibunya yang berusia 60 tahun, S Thanaletchumy, mengatakan bahawa anaknya memberitahu bahawa polis telah memukulnya dengan paip getah.

Keluarganya mendakwa kesihatan Ganapathy merosot selepas berada dalam tahanan polis, mengakibatkan kakinya bengkak dan lebam seolah-olah dia dipukul.

Ganapathy pernah bekerja sebagai peniaga menjual susu lembu dan mempunyai dua orang anak berusia lima dan tujuh tahun.

Persoalannya sekarang adalah apakah Menteri MIC, Menteri Sumber Manusia, Datuk Seri Saravanan Murugan akan memastikan bahawa Kabinet hari ini akan membentuk siasatan bebas mengenai kematian Ganapathy dan juga menjanjikan bahawa kerajaan Muhyiddin masih komited seperti di masa lalu untuk mewujudkan IPCMC — janji yang diberikan Muhyiddin ketika beliau merupakan menteri dalam negeri di bawah kerajaan Pakatan Harapan.

Sebenarnya, Muhyiddin sebagai menteri dalam negeri telah menetapkan bahawa IPCMC akan dibentuk pada akhir tahun 2019 — cadangan yang pertama kali dibuat oleh Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja mengenai Reformasi Polis pada tahun 2004!

Tiga Perdana Menteri telah datang dan pergi, dan Perdana Menteri keempat yang telah memberikan komitmen untuk menubuhkan IPCMC kini menyeret kakinya mengenai perkara ini.

Bolehkah Menteri MIC menjelaskan mengapa selepas mesyuarat Kabinet hari ini?

Semalam, saya mengatakan bahawa denda RM50,000 untuk penjual burger Kota Bharu, Wan Mohd Faisal Kadir, 38, yang mengusahakan sebuah gerai di hadapan rumahnya di Kampung Rambutan Rendang, Kota Bharu, adalah bukti kakistokrasi dalam Kerajaan Muhyiddin.

Bolehkah Kabinet mengganti denda RM50,000 yang keras dan tidak dapat dibebankan dengan amaran tegas kepada Wan Faisal bahawa dia akan didenda jika dia melanggar perintah kawalan pergerakan lagi.

Denda zalim sebanyak RM10,000 kepada individu dan RM50,000 kepada syarikat ini  dikuatkuasakan melalui Ordinan Darurat (Pencegahan Dan Pengawalan Penyakit Berjangkit) (Pindaan) 2021 pada 11 Mac 2021.

Selepas lebih daripada sebulan dikuatkuasakan, pihak Polis sendiri pun masih tidak memahami peraturan baharu di bawah Ordinan Darurat ini, seperti yang didakwa oleh Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri.

Tidak hairanlah bahawa Malaysia bukan salah satu negara di Asia Timur dan Pasifik yang menunjukkan prestasi yang baik dalam memerangi wabak Covid-19.

Malaysia perlu berusaha untuk melakukan dengan lebih baik dalam mengawal penularan wabak ini.

Tamatkan darurat dan panggil Parlimen bersidang untuk menggerakkan usaha dan pendekatan yang melibatkan “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyarakat” supaya kita boleh melawan wabak ini dengan lebih baik dan bukan ketinggalan di belakang negara-negara seperti Singapura, Taiwan, Korea Selatan, Jepun, UAE, Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Thailand dan Arab Saudi.

Semalam adalah hari ke-13 berturut-turut di mana kes Covid-19 baharu mencatatkan lebih daripada 2,000 kes, dengan 2,733 kes, menjadikan jumlah terkumpul 398,451 kes.

Malaysia kini berada di persimpangan wabak Covid-19. Adakah kita akan mengatasi kenaikan 13 hari berturut-turut dengan lebih daripada 2,000 kes, dengan menurunkan angka ini ke bawah 2,000 atau adakah kenaikan harian kes Covid-19 akan melonjak melebihi tanda 3,000 untuk menandakan permulaan gelombang keempat Covid-19 di Malaysia?

Sekiranya peningkatan jumlah kes Covid-19 baru setiap hari melepasi angka 3,000, maka itu menandakan kegagalan sepenuhnya pengisytiharan darurat dan penangguhan Parlimen kononnya untuk memerangi pandemi Covid-19.

Kita kini berada di tangga ke-44 di antara negara-negara di dunia dengan kadar kenaikan harian ini, kita kemungkinan akan mengatasi Bulgaria (399,259 kes) ke tangga ke-43 esok dan mengatasi Arab Saudi (414,219 kes) pada awal Mei untuk berada di tempat ke-42 di dunia.

Mengapa Malaysia terus mengatasi kedudukan negara lain dengan lebih banyak jumlah keseluruhan kes Covid-19?

Kerajaan Muhyiddin perlu mengundurkan diri atas ketidakcekapan dan kegagalan mentadbir serta pencabulan Perlembagaan dan Rukun Negara sekiranya mereka tidak mampu untuk mengawal gelombang ketiga penularan Covid-19 dengan kadar peningkatan harian kes yang terus melonjak ke arah 3,000 kes sehari.

Semalam, Ketua Pembangkang Parlimen dan Presiden PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim disoal siasat oleh polis berhubung kononnya rakaman perbualan telefon dengan Presiden UMNO Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Dalam rakaman terbaru yang berlangsung selama empat minit 17 saat, suara orang yang terdengar seperti Anwar memuji orang yang terdengar seperti Zahid mengenai pengendalian perhimpunan agung Umno.

Anwar disoal siasat di bawah Seksyen 505 (b) Kanun Keseksaan.

Tetapi persoalannya mengapa rakaman audio yang diedarkan yang didakwa mengandungi suara Perdana Menteri, Muhyiddin Yassin dan Menteri Dalam Negeri, Hamzah Zainuddin, mengenai penyuapan anggota Parlimen, tidak disoal oleh pihak polis.

Adakah pihak Polis sedar bahawa reputasi, kredibiliti, dan tahap kepercayaan terhadap mereka tidak dibantu dengan amalan layanan berbeza seperti ini?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Rabu, 28 April 2021)

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Challenge for DAP is to reaffirm the four principles of Malaysian nation-building adopted at the First DAP Congress in Setapak in 1967 and expand their support among Malaysians to win the 15th General Election to begin to fulfil the Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to be a united world-class great nation

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I have called on DAP cadres and members at all levels and throughout the country to unite and rally behind the party for Pakatan Harapan to achieve a new high point in the 15th General Election as well as to safeguard the party against external forces which are trying to split and destroy it.

Our challenge is to reaffirm the four principles of Malaysian nation-building adopted at the First DAP Congress in Setapak in 1967 and expand their support among Malaysians to win the 15th General Election to begin to fulfil the Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to an united world-class great nation.

The four Malaysian nation-building principles in accordance with the Malaysian Constitution and the subsequent Rukun Negara adopted at the First DAP Congress at Setapak in 1967 were:

A firm sense of national unity, identity, and solidarity which can only be established if the principle of racial equality is faithfully observed and implemented in all fields of national life.

A highly-skilled and educated population through a modern and dynamic policy of education.

Social and economic discipline in national life through social and fiscal policies to ensure a fairer distribution of the national wealth and a more scrupulous adherence to the principle and practice of social justice; and

An incorruptible and efficient government administrative machinery.

It is precisely because Malaysia had deviated from these four nation-building principles which was why, despite our potentials and promises, we had trailed behind other nations in the past half a century.

After six decades of Malaysian nationhood, we have failed to develop a national unity, identity and solidarity as in other nations.

When the Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin was the Education Minister at the beginning of the last decade, he launched the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 in September 2012 for Malaysia to become a “wonder nation” and make the quantum jump from the bottom third to top third of 2021 PISA (Programme for International Assessment) tests of OECD.

But this had been a dismal failure, for instead of leaping into the top third of the PISA tests, Malaysia’s 2018 PISA results had been worse than the 2015 PISA results in all the three subjects of maths, science and reading and we are still far from the top third among the 80 PISA participating countries.

The four sets of PISA results for Malaysia since 2009 are as follows:

PISA Score (Rank)

2009

2012

2015

2018

Maths

404 (57)

421 (52)

446 (45)

440 (47)

Science

422 (52)

420 (53)

443 (47)

438 (48)

Reading

414 (55)

398 (59)

431 (50)

415 (56)

Would Malaysia students perform better in the fifth 2021 PISA tests — but whatever the outcome, Malaysia is far from the “wonder nation” that Muhyiddin wanted Malaysia to become in four years’ time in 2025.

In 1970, we had a bigger GDP than Singapore and Vietnam;. Since then, the GDP of Malaysia has increased 90 times but that of Vietnam has increased 122 times and Singapore 175 times and today, both Singapore and Vietnam have overtaken Malaysia in having larger GDPs.

On the upliftment of the Malays from poverty and backwardness, I am reminded of writer Mariam Mohtar’s seven questions which she asked the Malays to asked the Malay leaders, viz:

How come after 60 years, we are still behind the other Malaysians?

Would it be true that if “affirmative action” is based on need and not on race, there will be more for us poor Malays?

You keep telling us the Chinese are our enemies; that they steal from us and that if not for you, we would become extinct. How did the Chinese steal from us and how are they going to make us extinct?

On education, why are even our fellow Malays leaving the national schools and going to Chinese schools? Are they telling you something?

To our religious leaders, why is the Islam practised in many Islamic countries more liberal and open than ours? Words you forbid the infidels to use are used openly by non-Muslims even in Arabic countries?

You scold us for being lazy and call us useless — that we cannot walk without a tongkat. Yet you keep pushing the tongkat on us. Why?

Why do the older generation of Malaysians get on so much better with each other and now do not? Is it the school system?

Mariam’s seven questions are food for thought for Malays and Malaysians.

While in the midst of DAP party elections, we welcome criticisms and debate on the future of the DAP and the nation, we must be aware of external forces which are trying to split and destroy the DAP with lies, falsehoods, half-truths and fake news.

I had said that it were pure lies and falsehoods that I had said that a person who does not know Jawi is not qualified to be a Malaysian or that DAP Secretary-

General Lim Guan Eng had declared that he was not a Chinese when he was appointed as Finance Minister.

But to this day, there are attacks on DAP leaders on the social media on these two issues.

I am not prepared to dignify these social media attacks on the DAP leadership by referring to the abuses, invectives and low-class language used — but I am prepared to show these lies, falsehoods, half-truths and fake news to anyone in private.

The perception that was created when the Jawi controversy blew up in 2019 was that the DAP was responsible for introducing the Jawi issue in the Chinese and Tamil primary schools, when in fact, it was the work of the former MCA and MIC deputy education ministers, Datuk Chong sin Woon and P. Kamalanathan who decided in Sept. 21, 2015 on new textbooks for the Chinese and Tamil primary schools from 2017–2022.

If there had been no change of government in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018, the implementation of the Education Ministry decision on new curriculum decided by the Barisan Nasional in Sept. 2015 would have resulted in the compulsory introduction of Jawi in Chinese and Tamil primary schools.

The DAP was responsible for turning the compulsory introduction of Jawi to optional introduction of Jawi in Chinese and Tamil primary schools.

Yet DAP was blamed for the introduction of Jawi in Chinese and Tamil primary schools. Is this fair and true?

DAP leaders in the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government had been guided by the principle that power must serve the people’s interests and for the nation’s sake and not power for power’s sake.

We must continue to be guided by this principle, that we are in politics to serve the people and the Malaysian Dream and not for our self-advancement or self-glorification.

The challenge for DAP is to reaffirm the four principles of Malaysian nation-building adopted at the First DAP Congress in Setapak in 1967 and to expand its support among Malaysians so as to win the 15th General Election to begin to fulfil the Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to be a united world-class great nation.

Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 29th April 2021

Cabaran untuk DAP adalah untuk menegaskan semula empat prinsip pembangunan negara bangsa yang mula diangkat buat pertama kali dalam Kongres DAP di Setapak pada tahun 1967 dan untuk meluaskan sokongan dalam kalangan rakyat Malaysia untuk memenangi Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 untuk mula memenuhi Impian Malaysia untuk negara kita menjadi negara hebat yang bertaraf dunia

Saya telah menyeru kepada kader dan ahli-ahli DAP di semua peringkat di seluruh negara untuk bersatu menyokong parti untuk membolehkan Pakatan Harapan mencapai satu kemuncak baharu untuk Malaysia dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 dan juga untuk mempertahankan parti kita anasir luar yang cuba untuk memecah belahkan dan memusnahkan kita.

Cabaran untuk kita adalah untuk menegaskan semula empat prinsip pembangunan negara bangsa yang mula diangkat buat pertama kali dalam Kongres DAP di Setapak pada tahun 1967 dan untuk meluaskan sokongan dalam kalangan rakyat Malaysia untuk memenangi Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 untuk mula memenuhi Impian Malaysia untuk negara kita menjadi negara hebat yang bertaraf dunia.

Empat prinsip pembinaan negara bangsa yang selari dengan Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan Rukun Negara yang dipersetujui dalam Kongres DAP pertama di Setapak pada tahun 1967 adalah:

Perasaan perpaduan, solidariti, dan identiti kebangsaan yang hanya boleh dibentuk sekiranya kesaksamaan diamalkan dan dilaksanakan antara kaum dalam semua bidang kehidupan.

Populasi yang berkemahiran dan berpendidikan tinggi melalui satu dasar pendidikan yang moden dan dinamik.

Disiplin sosial dan ekonomi dalam negara melalui dasar sosial dan fiskal yang memastikan pengagihan kekayaan negara dengan lebih adil dan pegangan kepada prinsip dan amalan keadilan sosial, dan

Kerajaan yang efisien dan tidak korup.

Kerana kita telah lari daripada empat prinsip pembinaan negara bangsa inilah, negara kita kini berada di belakang daripada negara-negara lain dalam tempoh setengah abad yang lepas.

Selepas enam dekad, kita masih gagal untuk membentuk perpaduan, identiti, dan solidariti kebangsaan seperti di negara lain.

Semasa Muhyiddin Yassin merupakan Menteri Pendidikan pada permulaan dekad yang lepas, beliau telah melancarkan Pelan Pembangunan Pendidikan Malaysia 2013-2025 pada bulan September 2012, untuk menjadi Malaysia sebuah “negara hebat”, melonjak daripada sepertiga terbawah ke sepertiga teratas dalam ujian PISA 2021 dalam kalangan negara OECD.

Namun perkara ini telah menjadikan satu kegagalan besar, daripada melonjak ke sepertiga teratas kedudukan ujian PISA, keputusan PISA untuk Malaysia pada tahun 2018 mencatatkan kedudukan yang lebih buruk berbanding dengan tahun 2015 dalam ketiga-tiga mata pelajaran matematik, sains, dan pembacaan, dan kita masih lagi jauh daripada berada dalam kalangan sepertiga tertinggi 80 negara yang menyertai ujian PISA.

Empat keputusan PISA untuk Malaysia sejak 2009 adalah seperti berikut:

Markah PISA (kedudukan)

2009

2012

2015

2018

Matematik

404 (57)

421 (52)

446 (45)

440 (47)

Sains

422 (52)

420 (53)

443 (47)

438 (48)

Membaca

414 (55)

398 (59)

431 (50)

415 (56)

Di manakah kedudukan negara kita dalam kedudukan ujian PISA kelima 2021 kelak? Apa pun hasilnya, Malaysia masih lagi jauh daripada menjadi “negara hebat” yang dijanjikan Muhyiddin dalam tempoh empat tahun lagi pada tahun 2025.

Pada tahun 1970, kita mempunyai KDNK yang lebih besar daripada Singapura dan Vietnam. Sejak itu, KDNK Malaysia telah meningkat 90 kali tetapi Vietnam telah meningkat 122 kali dan Singapura 175 kali dan hari ini, kedua-dua Singapura dan Vietnam telah mengatasi Malaysia dengan mempunyai KDNK yang lebih besar.

Mengenai peningkatan taraf hidup orang Melayu dari kemiskinan dan kemunduran, saya teringatkan tujuh soalan penulis Mariam Mohtar yang meminta orang Melayu untuk bertanya kepada pemimpin Melayu, iaitu:

Bagaimana selepas 60 tahun, kita masih ketinggalan dengan rakyat Malaysia yang lain?

Adakah benar bahawa jika “tindakan afirmatif” didasarkan pada keperluan dan bukan berdasarkan kaum, akan ada lebih banyak bagi kita orang Melayu yang miskin?

Anda terus memberitahu bahawa orang Cina adalah musuh kita; bahawa mereka mencuri dari kita dan bahawa jika tidak kerana anda, kami akan pupus. Bagaimana orang Cina mencuri dari kita dan bagaimana mereka akan membuat kita pupus?

Mengenai pendidikan, mengapa orang Melayu kita meninggalkan sekolah kebangsaan dan pergi ke sekolah Cina? Adakah mereka memberitahu anda sesuatu?

Bagi pemimpin agama kita, mengapa Islam yang diamalkan di banyak negara Islam lebih liberal dan terbuka daripada negara kita? Kata-kata yang anda larang orang kafir digunakan secara terbuka oleh orang bukan Islam walaupun di negara Arab?

Anda memarahi kami kerana malas dan memanggil kami tidak berguna — bahawa kami tidak boleh berjalan tanpa tongkat. Namun anda tetap mendorong tongkat pada kami. Kenapa?

Mengapa generasi Malaysia yang lebih tua dapat menjadi lebih baik antara satu sama lain dan sekarang tidak? Adakah ia sistem sekolah?

Tujuh soalan Mariam adalah perkara yang perlu direnung bersama.

Dalam berhadapan dengan pemilihan parti DAP, kita mengalu-alukan kritikan dan pandangan jujur tentang masa depan DAP dan negara, tetapi kita perlu sedar mengenai cubaan anasir luar yang cuba memecah belahkan parti kita dengan penipuan, fitnah, dan berita palsu.

Saya telah katakan sebelum ini, perkara di mana kononnya saya mengatakan mereka yang tidak tahu jawi tidak layak menjadi rakyat Malaysia atau Setiausaha Agung DAP Lim Guan Eng mengatakan yang beliau bukan seorang Cina apabila dilantik menjadi Menteri Kewangan ini hanyalah satu penipuan semata-mata.

Tetapi sehingga hari ini, terdapat serangan terhadap pimpinan DAP di media sosial mengenai dua perkara ini.

Saya tidak bersedia untuk mengangkat serangan yang tidak bermaruah ini dengan mendedahkannya — tetapi saya bersedia untuk menunjukkan penipuan, fitnah, dan berita palsu ini kepada sesiapa sahaja secara tertutup.

Persepsi yang dicipta semasa kontroversi Jawi meletus pada tahun 2019 adalah kononnya DAP bertanggungjawab memperkenalkan matapelajaran Jawi di sekolah Cina dan Tamil, sedangkan perkara ini adalah hasil kerja mantan timbalan menteri pendidikan MCA dan MIC, Datuk Chong Sin Woon dan P Kamalanathan yang membuat keputusan pada 21 September 2015 berkenaan dengan buku teks baharu untuk sekolah Cina dan Tamil untuk tempoh tahun 2017 ke tahun 2022.

Sekiranya tidak ada perubahan kerajaan dalam PRU-14 pada 9 Mei 2018, pelaksanaan keputusan Kementerian Pendidikan ini akan membawa kepada pengenalan pendidikan Jawi secara wajib di sekolah Cina dan Tamil.

Tetapi, DAP juga yang dipersalahkan mengenai perkara ini. Adakah perkara ini benar dan adil?

Dalam 22 bulan sebagai kerajaan Pakatan Harapan, para pemimpin DAP telah dipimpin oleh prinsip bahawa kuasa perlu digunakan untuk kepentingan rakyat dan negara dan bukannya untuk mendapatkan kuasa semata-mata demi kuasa.

Kita perlu terus didorong oleh prinsip ini, bahawa kita dalam politik demi rakyat dan demi Impian Malaysia, bukannya untuk kepentingan dan nama sendiri.

Cabaran untuk DAP adalah untuk menegaskan semula empat prinsip pembangunan negara bangsa yang mula diangkat buat pertama kali dalam Kongres DAP di Setapak pada tahun 1967 dan untuk meluaskan sokongan dalam kalangan rakyat Malaysia untuk memenangi Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 untuk mula memenuhi Impian Malaysia untuk negara kita menjadi negara hebat yang bertaraf dunia.

Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 29 April 2021

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#kerajaangagal12 – four reasons why the Muhyiddin government has failed in the war against Covid-19 pandemic despite the emergency and suspension of Parliament on January  12

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Four reasons why the Muhyiddin Government has failed in the war against Covid-19 pandemic are, viz:

1. The daily increase of new Covid-19 cases which breached the 3,000-mark yesterday, recording an increase of 3,142 cases – the third time new daily cases had reached the 3,000 mark since Feb. 24.

2. Malaysia’s  cumulative total has breached the 400,000 mark – recording 401,593 cases.

3. Malaysia has moved one step downwards and is now No. 43rd in the world among countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, overtaking Bulgaria,  and will overtake Saudi Arabia (cumulative total 415,287 cases) in a week’s time under Malaysia’s present rate of daily increase of new Covid-19 cases.

We were ranked No. 85 on Nov. 11, and we have beaten 42 countries in the past six months, while China, which was the worst country in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases early last year, is now ranked No. 95 with a cumulative total of 90,622 cases!

4. Our “Total cases per 1 million  population” index, which is 12,279 for Malaysia, is the highest in  East Asia,  ASEAN and the Pacific  (Singapore 10,375; Philippines 9,212; Indonesia 6,006; Japan 4,562;  Myanmar 2,610; South Korea 2,352;  Hong Kong 1,558;Australia 1,156;  Thailand 882; Cambodia 696; New Zealand 522; Brunei 508;  Laos 82; China 63; Taiwan 47 and Vietnam 29.

Our “total cases per 1 million population” index is close to India, where the Covid-19 pandemic has turned the country into “hell” with every day in the past week setting a world record of  new Covid-19 cases.

In the past seven days, the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases in India had increased by 2.4 million cases bringing the total in India to 18.3 million cases and nearly 205,000 deaths  while the global cumulative total has exceeded 150 million cases and global fatalities are reaching the 3.2 million mark.

In India, the public health system has collapsed, with shortages of oxygen, medical supplies and hospital staff members compounding  a record number of new infections.

Globally, the pandemic shows no sign of easing, with the virus devastating country after country.

The situation in India is a bleak reminder that none of us will be safe until everyone is safe.

However, the persistent poor performance of Malaysia in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic is not the only sign of Malaysia’s kakistocracy and the shocking state of “kerajaan gagal”.

Other examples are:

1. Police harassment and investigation into cartoonist Zullkiflee Anwar Haque, better known as Zunar, for the  cartoon which lampooned the Kedah state government’s decision to cancel the Thaipusam public holiday which  was published on Facebook on Jan 23. The police have opened an investigation paper under Section 505(c) of the Penal Code and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act.

Section 505(c) concerns intent to incite or which is likely to incite any class or community of persons to commit any offence against any other class or community of persons and if  convicted, a person can face a prison term which may extend to two years, or a fine, or both.

Have the police nothing better to do?

2. Continued controversy over the emergency ordinance imposing the harsh RM10,000 fines on individuals and RM50,000 fines on companies for breach of Covid-19 SOP including the unconscionable  RM50,000 fine imposed on the Kota Bharu burger seller, Wan Mohd Faisal Kadir, 38,  who operates a stall in front of his house at Kampung Rambutan Rendang, Kota Bharu when the RM50,000 fine should be substituted for a last warning to Wan Mohd Faisal not to violate the Covid-19  SOPs.

3. The RM5 billion raid on  the National Trust Fund to procure

Covid-19 vaccines.

4. Teacher making lewd comments in class.

The suspension of Parliament under an emergency is most questionable for the separation of powers is one of the cardinal features of the Malaysian Constitution.

Can an emergency proclamation suspend the judiciary or suspend the rule of law as entrenched in the Constitution and the Rukun Negara?

The Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, must not tarry any further and he should advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to convene Parliament so that Malaysia can be one of the better-performing nations in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 29th April 2021)

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#kerajaangagal12 — empat sebab mengapa kerajaan Muhyiddin telah gagal dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19 walaupun dengan darurat dan penggantungan Parlimen sejak 12 Januari

Empat sebab mengapa kerajaan Muhyiddin telah gagal dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19 adalah:

1.  Kadar peningkatan harian kes Covid-19 telah memecahkan siling 3,000 kes semalam dengan 3,142 kes — kali ketiga kadar ini berada di atas paras 3,000 kes sejak 24 Feb.

2.  Jumlah kes terkumpul di Malaysia telah melepasi 400,000 kes — dengan 401,593 kes.

3.  Kedudukan negara kita terus merosot, kini berada di tempat ke-43 di dunia dari segi jumlah kes terkumpul, mengatasi kedudukan Bulgaria dan kita bakal mengatasi Arab Saudi (yang mempunyai 415,287 kes) dalam masa seminggu lagi dengan kadar peningkatan kes baharu sedia ada.

Kita berada di tempat ke-85 pada 11 November dan setakat hari ini kita telah melonjak 42 kedudukan dalam tempoh enam bulan yang lepas. Sedangkan China, yang merupakan negara dengan situasi terburuk pada awal tahun lalu, kini berada di tempat ke-95 dengan hanya 90,622 kes terkumpul!

4.  Indeks “kes per sejuta rakyat” kita adalah 12,279, kadar tertinggi di Asia Timur, ASEAN, dan kawasan serantau Pasifik (Singapura 10,375; Filipina 9,212; Indonesia 6,006; Jepun 4,562; Myanmar 2,610; Korea Selatan 2,352; Hong Kong 1,558; Australia 1,156; Thailand 882; Kemboja 696; New Zealand 522; Brunei 508; Laos 82; China 63; Taiwan 47 dan Vietnam 29).

Indeks “kes per sejuta rakyat” kita lebih hampir dengan India, di mana wabak Covid-19 ini telah mengubah negara tersebut menjadi “neraka” untuk setiap hari dalam minggu yang lepas, dengan kadar kes Covid-19 yang memecah rekod.

Dalam tempoh tujuh hari yang lepas sahaja, jumlah kes terkumpul di India telah meningkat sebanyak 2.4 juta kes, membawa angka keseluruhan kepada 18.3 juta kes dengan hampir 205,000 kematian, sedangkan angka keseluruhan di peringkat global telah melepasi paras 150 juta kes dengan lebih daripada 3.2 juta kematian di seluruh dunia.

Di India, sistem kesihatan awam telah pun gagal, dengan kekurangan bekalan oksigen, bekalan perubatan dan kakitangan hospital menambah teruk kepada kadar peningkatan yang memecahkan rekod ini.

Di seluruh dunia pula, wabak ini tidak kelihatan seperti ia semakin mereda, dengan virus ini terus memusnahkan satu negara selepas satu negara yang lain.

Situasi di India ini adalah satu peringatan suram bahawa tidak ada sesiapa pun yang selamat sehinggalah semua orang selamat.

Namun, prestasi buruk negara kita dalam melawan wabak Covid-19 bukanlah satu-satunya bukti dan tanda sifat kakistokrasi dan keadaan “kerajaan gagal” dalam negara kita.

Contoh-contoh lain adalah:

1.  Gangguan pihak Polis terhadap kartunis Zullkiflee Anwar Haque, yang lebih dikenali sebagai Zunar, kerana satu kartun yang mengkritik keputusan kerajaan negeri Kedah untuk membatalkan cuti peristiwa Thaipusam yang telah diterbitkan di Facebook pada 23 Januari. Pihak Polis telah membuka kertas siasatan di bawah Seksyen 505(c) Kanun Keseksaan dan Seksyen 233 Akta Komunikasi dan Multimedia.

Seksyen 505(c) adalah berkenaan kesalahan mengeluarkan kenyataan khianat awam dengan niat hendak mengapikan atau yang mungkin mengapikan mana-mana golongan atau kaum melakukan sesuatu kesalahan terhadap mana-mana golongan atau kaum lain, dan sekiranya didapati bersalah, tertuduh boleh dikenakan penjaran sehingga dua tahun, denda, atau kedua-duanya sekali.

Adakah pihak Polis tidak ada kerja yang lebih penting?

2.  Kontroversi berterusan mengenai Ordinan Darurat yang mengenakan denda zalim sebanyak RM10,000 kepada individu dan RM50,000 kepada syarikat atas pelanggaran SOP Covid-19, termasuklah denda zalim dan tidak masuk akal sebanyak RM50,000 kepada peniaga burger di Kota Bharu, Wan Mohd Faisal Kadir, 38, yang menjalankan perniagaan gerai di hadapan rumah beliau di Kampung Rambutan Rendang, Kota Bharu, sedangkan denda ini sepatutnya digantikan dengan amaran terakhir untuk beliau tidak melanggari SOP Covid-19.

3.  Penjarahan RM5 bilion daripada Kumpulan Wang Amanah Negara untuk membeli vaksin Covid-19.

4.  Guru membuat komen lucah di dalam kelas.

Penggantungan Parlimen di bawah pelaksanaan darurat ini adalah perkara yang sangat tidak masuk akal, memandangkan prinsip pemisahan kuasa adalah salah satu ciri utama Perlembagaan Malaysia.

Bolehkah proklamasi darurat menggantung sistem kehakiman atau kedaulatan undang-undang seperti yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan dan Rukun Negara?

Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, tidak boleh berlengah lagi dan beliau perlulah menasihati Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk memanggil Parlimen bersidang supaya negara kita boleh melihat prestasi yang lebih baik dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 29 April 2021)

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Call on all contending candidates to close ranks and rally behind the leadership of Liew Chin Tong and Teo Nie Ching to take Johore DAP to new  heights – which is to be the front-line state for DAP and Pakatan Harapan to win the 15th General Election to begin to fulfil the Malaysian Dream

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I will not be able to attend the Johore DAP State Convention in Batu Pahat on Sunday, May 2, 2021 as I am in Covid-19 quarantine for 10 days from April 30 to May 9.

I would therefore be unable to cast my vote at the Johore DAP State Elections.

I have no Covid-19, but I was in contact with someone  tested positive for Covid-19.

The Johore State Convention is an important milestone in the DAP’s struggle to forge an united world-class great Malaysian nation since 1966.

For more than six decades, Johore was the fort of the Alliance and its component parties – UMNO, MCA and MIC.

Johore had 1.8 million registered voters but it got the most number of parliamentary seats, more than  Selangor which had 2.4 million registered votes but allocated 22 parliamentary seats as compared to 26 parliamentary seats for Johore.

Why? Because Johore was regarded as invincible strongholds of UMNO, MCA  and MIC and that even if UMNO, MCA or MIC candidates fell in other states in general elections,  UMNO, MCA and MIC candidates will stand tall,  strong and win  in Johore.

That was until the 13th General Election in 2013 and 14th General Election in 2018.

Before the 13th General Election, all the DAP could win was one parliamentary seat – Kluang in 1978 General Election (Lee Kaw) and Bakri in the 2008 General Election (Er Teck Hwa).

In the 13th General Election, DAP won four parliamentary seats – Bakri (Er Teck Hwa), Kluang (Liew Chin Tong), Kulai (Teo Nie Ching) and Gelang Patah (Lim Kit Siang). In the 14th General Election, we won five parliamentary seats – Bakri (Yeo Bee Yin), Kluang (Wong Shu Qi), Labis (Pang Hok Liong), Kulai (Teo Nie Ching) and Iskandar Puteri (Lim Kit Siang).

The sea-change for DAP in Johore was due to the vision and courage of Liew Chin Tong, who worked tirelessly from 2012 to transform Johore from the invincible fort of Alliance into the frontline for DAP in the quest for the Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to be an united world-class nation.

This transformation can be seen from the results of the three last general elections for the Johore  state assembly.  Before 2013, the most number of State Assembly seats won by the DAP were four seats – Bentayan (Quee Tong Hiang), Mengkibol (Ng Lam Hua), Skudai (Boo Cheng Hau) and Senai (Ong Kow Meng).

In the 13th General Election, DAP won 13 State Assembly seats which increased to 14 seats in the 14th General Election.

Teo Nie Ching  is one of among over 20 Malaysians who became Member of Parliament or State Assembly person before they were thirty years old – a mark that the DAP will  always represent  the youths of Malaysia, without forgetting the interests of all age groups. Nie Ching went on to become Deputy Education Minister in the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government to scale new heights.

Chin Tong and Nie Ching have issued a joint  declaration expressing their confidence that after braving the political ups and downs for over  50 years, Johore DAP  will flourish under a strong leadership.

They pledged their commitment to unleash the potential of DAP Johore  to spearhead a national movement to make the nation better and stronger, with two objectives,viz:

𝟭. 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗿 to 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆; and

𝟮. 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗔𝗣

They set out  five goals:

1.  𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗘𝟭𝟱;

2. 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻;

3. make  𝗗𝗔𝗣  𝗮 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆;

4. 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 – 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁; and

5.Be 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵s 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻

Chin Tong and Nie Ching are right. As they said:

“Malaysia is in an unprecedented triple crisis of politics, economy and health.

“The old political order has collapsed, including UMNO’s model of one-party dominance. In 2018, we successfully created a miracle and defeated the old political order.

“2021 is not the time to be cynical nor pessimistic, it is now time for us to come together and create a new order that allows for all Johoreans and Malaysians to enjoy a stable and prosperous nation in the next decade.

“This is the DAP’s duty to the nation and its people.

“.DAP’s journey is never smooth sailing but we always march on fearlessly in the face of adversity and achieve the impossible.

“We humbly call upon all Johor DAP members to unite and join us in leading the party and our coalition partners in this journey towards winning GE15 and governing again, and to transform DAP from a grocery shop to a hypermarket – starting from Johor.”

I endorse the declaration by Chin Tong and Nie Ching. This is the substance of the Malaysian Dream.

Chin  Tong is not perfect. He has his faults – just as we must all be humble to recognise our weaknesses.

We have made our criticisms and given our views on how the DAP in Johore can scale new heights.

I therefore call  on all MPs, State Assembly members and contending candidates to close ranks and rally behind the leadership of Liew Chin Tong and Teo Nie Ching to take Johore DAP to new  heights – which is to be the front-line state for DAP and Pakatan Harapan to win the 15th General Election to begin to fulfil the Malaysian Dream.

(Media Statement (2)  by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 30th April 2021)

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Seruan kepada semua calon yang bertanding untuk bersatu dengan kepimpinan Liew Chin Tong dan Teo Nie Ching untuk membawa DAP Johor ke kemuncak baharu — menjadi negeri barisan hadapan untuk DAP dan Pakatan Harapan untuk memenangi PRU-15 dan memenuhi Impian Malaysia

Saya tidak akan dapat untuk menghadiri Konvensyen DAP Negeri Johor di Batu Pahat pada hari Ahad, 2 Mei 2021 memandangkan saya sedang menjalani kuarantin Covid-19 selama 10 hari daripada 30 April sehingga 9 Mei.

Oleh itu, saya tidak dapat untuk mengundi dalam pemilihan DAP Johor.

Saya tidak dijangkiti Covid-19, tetapi saya telah menjadi kontak rapat seseorang yang telah disahkan positif Covid-19.

Konvensyen DAP Negeri Johor ini adalah satu titik penting dalam perjalanan DAP untuk membentuk sebuah negara bangsa Malaysia yang bertaraf dunia sejak daripada tahun 1966.

Untuk lebih daripada enam dekad, Johor adalah kubu kuat Perikatan dan parti-parti komponennya — UMNO, MCA, dan MIC.

Johor mempunyai 1.8 juta pengundi berdaftar, tetapi negeri ini juga mempunyai jumlah kerusi Parlimen tertinggi, lebih daripada Selangor yang mempunyai 2.4 juta pengundi berdaftar dengan 22 kerusi Parlimen, berbanding dengan 26 kerusi Parlimen di Johor.

Mengapakah begini? Ini kerana Johor dianggap sebagai kubu kuat UMNO, MCA, dan MIC yang tidak dapat dikalahkan, bahawa sekiranya calon UMNO, MCA, dan MIC kalah di negeri lain, mereka akan terus kekal kuat dan menang di Johor.

Sehinggalah Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 pada tahun 2013 dan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 pada tahun 2018.

Sebelum PRU-13, DAP hanya mampu memenangi satu kerusi — Kluang pada PRU tahun 1978 (Lee Kaw) dan Bakri dalam PRU 2008 (Er Teck Hwa).

Dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13, DAP memenangi empat kerusi Parlimen — Bakri (Er Teck Hwa), Kluang (Liew Chin Tong), Kulai (Teo Nie Ching), dan Gelang Patah (Lim Kit Siang). Pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14, kita memenangi lima kerusi Parlimen — Bakri (Yeo Bee Yin), Kluang (Wong Shu Qi), Labis (Pang Hok Liong), Kulai (Teo Nie Ching), dan Iskandar Puteri (Lim Kit Siang).

Perubahan ini berlaku kerana visi dan keberanian Liew Chin Tong, yang bekerja keras daripada tahun 2012 untuk mengubah Johor, daripada sebuah kubu kuat Perikatan kepada medan barisan hadapan untuk DAP dalam usaha untuk merealisasikan Impian Malaysia menjadi sebuah negara yang bersatu padu yang berkelas dunia.

Transformasi ini dapat dilihat daripada keputusan DUN Johor tiga pilihan raya umum yang lepas. Sebelum 2013, jumlah tertinggi kerusi DUN yang dimenangi DAP di Johor adalah empat — Bentayan (Quee Tong Hiang), Mengkibol (Ng Lam Hua), Skudai (Boo Cheng Hau), dan Senai (Ong Kow Meng).

Dalam PRU-13, DAP memenangi 13 kerusi DUN yang kemudiannya meningkat kepada 14 kerusi dalam PRU-14.

Teo Nie Ching adalah salah seorang daripada kira-kira 20 orang rakyat Malaysia yang menjadi Ahli Parlimen atau Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri sebelum mencecah usia 30 tahun — bukti bahawa DAP sentiasa akan mewakili golongan muda di Malaysia, tanpa mengabaikan kepentingan kumpulan umur yang lain. Nie Ching kemudiannya menjadi Timbalan Menteri Pendidikan dalam kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan untuk membawa negara kita ke kemuncak baharu.

Chin Tong dan Nie Ching telah mengeluarkan kenyataan bersama menyatakan keyakinan mereka bahawa selepas 50 tahun perjalanan yang panjang dengan pelbagai cabaran, DAP Johor akan terus kuat dengan kepimpinan yang kuat.

Mereka menjanjikan komitmen untuk mengembangkan potensi DAP Johor untuk menjayakan pergerakan kebangsaan untuk menjadikan negara kita lebih baik dan lebih kuat dengan dua objektif:

1.  Memenangi Johor untuk membawa kemenangan di peringkat kebangsaan; dan

2.  Johor memimpin dalam transformasi nasional DAP.

Mereka meletakkan lima sasaran:

1.  Bersedia untuk PRU-15;

2.  Bersedia untuk mentadbir;

3.  Jadikan DAP sebuah parti pelbagai kaum;

4.  Membina dan transformasi parti — daripada kedai runcit ke pasaraya; dan

5.  Menjadi parti politik pilihan golongan muda dan wanita.

Chin Tong dan Nie Ching tepat. Seperti yang dikatakan mereka:

“Malaysia sedang bergelut dengan krisis tiga serangkai – politik, ekonomi dan kesihatan – yang belum pernah terjadi sebelum ini.

“Gagasan politik lama telah runtuh, termasuklah model dominasi satu parti UMNO. Pada tahun 2018, kita berjaya mencatat sejarah ulung dengan menumpaskan gagasan politik lama.

“Tahun 2021 bukan masa untuk bersikap sinis atau pesimis. Sekarang tiba saatnya kita bersatu dan membuat susunan baharu yang membolehkan semua rakyat Johor dan rakyat Malaysia menikmati hidup di negara yang stabil dan makmur pada dekad yang akan datang.

“Ini adalah tanggung jawab DAP kepada negara dan rakyat.

“Perjalanan DAP memang tidak pernah lancar  tetapi kita tetap berani  mara menghadapi rintangan, dan kita berjaya mencapai matlamat walaupun ia dikatakan mustahil sebelum itu.

“Dengan itu, kami dengan rasa penuh rendah hati  menyeru semua anggota DAP Johor untuk bersatu dan menyertai kami memimpin parti dan rakan-rakan PH serta yang sehaluan dengannya  menuju  kemenangan pada PRU15 dan kembali mentadbir semula. Kita juga mahu melaksanakan transformasi DAP daripada sebuah kedai runcit menjadi  pasar raya besar — yang akan bermula di  Johor.”

Saya menyokong kenyataan daripada Chin Tong dan Nie Ching ini. Inilah intipati Impian Malaysia.

Chin Tong tidaklah sempurna. Beliau ada kekurangan beliau — seperti mana kita semua juga perlu merendah diri dan mengakui kelemahan masing-masing.

Kita telah memberikan kritikan dan pandangan kita tentang bagaimana DAP di Johor boleh mencapai kemuncak baharu.

Oleh itu, saya menyeru kepada semua Ahli-ahli Parlimen, Dewan Undangan Negeri, dan calon-calon yang bertanding untuk bersatu dengan kepimpinan Liew Chin Tong dan Teo Nie Ching untuk membawa DAP Johor ke kemuncak baharu — menjadi negeri barisan hadapan untuk DAP dan Pakatan Harapan untuk memenangi PRU-15 dan memenuhi Impian Malaysia.

(Kenyataan Media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 30 April 2021)

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#kerajaangagal13 – why are countries without emergency doing better than Malaysia despite a four-month-long  emergency and suspension of Parliament?

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Malaysia  reported 3,332 new cases of Covid-19 yesterday, the second day in a row that infections have exceeded the 3,000 mark, while for the previous 13 days, the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases were over 2,000 figures.

Many questions have to be asked, but the most important one  is why Malaysia is performing worse than  countries which have not declared a national emergency.

In the sixth monthly Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking released on April 26, 2021, Malaysia fell two rungs and was ranked No. 20.

None of the 19 countries higher ranked than Malaysia, led by Singapore and followed by New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, UAE, Finland, Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Thailand, Denmark, Norway, Saudi Arabia, US, UK and Canada, have declared national emergencies or suspended Parliament to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, yet they have performed better or shown greater national resilience than Malaysia.

Out of these 19 countries  with higher Covid Resilience Ranking, Malaysia lost out to ten countries  in East Asia, ASEAN and Pacific which have better “Total Cases per 1 million population” and “Deaths per 1  million population” indices, namely Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, China and Thailand while the other nine countries have higher “Total cases per 1 million population” and “Deaths per 1 million population” indices, namely Israel, UAE, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Saudi Arabia, US, UK and Canada.

Recent developments have supported the statement by community activist, Dr. Mohamed Rafick Khan that there is no point looking at daily positive tested cases because the disease is already in the population.

The “Tests/per 1 million population” index  shows that of the 19 nations ranked ahead of Malaysia in the April 2021 Bloomberg Covid Resilience Index, Malaysia is ahead of six countries, namely  Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, China and Thailand in this index but behind 13 other countries.

The “Test/per 1 million population” index for the these 20 countries in the April 2021 Bloomberg Covid Resilience Index are:

Nation (Cumulative Total Ranking) – Test/1 million population

Singapore (104) – 1,619,618

New Zealand (178) – 402,539

Australia (119) – 651,505

Israel (29) – 1,543,894

Taiwan (192) – 22,624

South Korea (86) – 171,634

Japan (38) – 92,759

UAE (40) -4,395,501

Finland (97) – 803,518

Hong Kong (145) – 1,483,190

Vietnam (177) – 26,502

China (95) – 111,163

Thailand (103) – 116,162

Denmark (62) – 6,403,542

Norway (88) – 951,529

Saudi Arabia(42) – 475,765

USA (1) – 1,339,328

UK (7) – 2,274,470

Canada (22) – 820,038

Malaysia (43) – 285,379

As Dr. Rafick said, with the declaration of emergency on January 12, 2021, the government should be able to introduce a more focussed and targeted strategy to combat the Covid-19 pandemic and stop using one rule for the whole country.

Has the jumbo-sized Muhyiddin Cabinet ever considered this question why other countries  could be better performers in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic without declaring an emergency or suspending Parliament?

Even the United States has made a great turn-around after being the worst country in the world  fighting the Covid-19 pandemic under President Donald Trump, who left office on January 20, 2021 with 25 million Covid-19 cases and 400,000 fatalities, with daily increase of new Covid-19 cases exceeding 200,000 cases in his last six weeks on office, reaching as high as 307,507 new Covid-19 cases on January 8, 2021.

Since Biden’s inauguration as US President on January 20, 2021, daily increase of new Covid-19 cases have come down as low as 42,098 cases on April 25.

Now, there is race against time between the virus and the vaccine.

Biden’s major COVID-19 promise was 100 million shots in Americans’ arms by his first 100 days in office. Some 290 million shots have been distributed, more than 230 million administered, and about 96 million Americans are fully vaccinated, 29% of the population.

The United States has now vaccinated more people than any other country, although the pandemic has killed 572,000 people, more than any other country as well.

Over 3,000 people were dying per day when Biden took office. Now that figure is under 700 a day.

Biden’s next 100 days will force him to face vaccine hesitancy among millions of Americans and an uptick in variants of the virus.

But in Malaysia, we are struggling to bring the third Covid wave – longest in the world – under control by reducing the daily increase of new Covid cases to triple and later double-digit figures.

But there is clear  danger that before the third Covid wave could be brought  under control, a more deadlier fourth Covid wave would escalate in the coun

The antidote to the fourth Covid wave is to immediately convene Parliament to spearhead an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic – a call which I had made for a whole year but which had fallen on deaf ears!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 30th April 2021)

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#kerajaangagal13 — mengapa negara tanpa darurat boleh mempunyai prestasi melawan Covid-19 yang lebih baik berbanding dengan Malaysia yang berada di bawah darurat selama empat bulan dengan penggantungan Parlimen?

Malaysia mencatatkan 3,332 kes baharu Covid-19 semalam, hari kedua berturut-turut dengan kadar jangkitan di atas paras 3,000 kes sementara 13 hari sebelum ini, kadar jangkitan tidak pernah turun bawah daripada 2,000 kes sehari.

Banyak persoalan perlu ditanyakan, tetapi yang paling penting sekali, mengapa prestasi negara kita dalam melawan Covid-19 lebih buruk berbanding dengan negara yang tidak pun mengisytiharkan darurat.

Dalam penerbitan keenam Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking yang diterbitkan pada 26 April 2021, negara kita telah jatuh dua anak tangga ke tempat ke-20.

Tidak ada satu pun daripada 19 negara di atas kita yang diketuai oleh Singapura dan diikuti oleh New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Taiwan, Korea Selatan, Jepun, UAE, Finland, Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Thailand, Denmark, Norway, Arab Saudi, AS, UK dan Kanada telah mengumumkan perintah darurat atau menggantung Parlimen untuk melawan wabak Covid-19, tetapi mereka mencatatkan prestasi yang lebih baik berbanding dengan Malaysia.

Daripada 19 negara ini, sepuluh berada di kawasan Asia Timur, ASEAN, dan kawasan serantau Pasifik mempunyai indeks “kes per sejuta penduduk” dan “kematian per sejuta penduduk” yang lebih baik, iaitu Singapura, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Korea Selatan, Jepun, Hong Kong, Vietnam, China dan Thailand manakala sembilan negara lain pula mempunyai indeks yang lebih tinggi iaitu Israel, UAE, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Arab Saudi, AS, UK dan Kanada.

Perkembangan terkini menyokong kenyataan daripada aktivis komuniti, Dr Mohamed Rafick Khan yang mengatakan tidak ada gunanya lagi untuk melihat kadar kes harian, memandangkan wabak ini kini telah berada di dalam komuniti.

Indeks “ujian per sejuta penduduk” menunjukkan bahawa Malaysia berada di hadapan enam negara, Taiwan, Korea Selatan, Jepun, Vietnam, China, dan Thailand, tetapi berada di belakang 13 negara lain. Carta indeks ini adalah seperti berikut:

Negara (Kedudukan Keseluruhan Kumulatif) – Ujian/1 juta penduduk

Singapura (104) – 1,619,618

New Zealand (178) – 402,539

Australia (119) – 651,505

Israel (29) – 1,543,894

Taiwan (192) – 22,624

Korea Selatan (86) – 171,634

Jepun (38) – 92,759

UAE (40) – 4,395,501

Finland (97) – 803,518

Hong Kong (145) – 1,483,190

Vietnam (177) – 26,502

China (95) – 111,163

Thailand (103) – 116,162

Denmark (62) – 6,403,542

Norway (88) – 951,529

Arab Saudi (42) – 475,765

Amerika Syarikat (1) – 1,339,328

UK (7) – 2,274,470

Kanada (22) – 820,038

Malaysia (43) – 285,379

Seperti yang dikatakan Dr Rafick, dengan pengisytiharan darurat pada 12 Januari 2021, kerajaan sepatutnya boleh memperkenalkan strategi yang lebih tersusun dan bersasar untuk melawan wabak Covid-19 dan berhenti menggunakan satu peraturan untuk keseluruhan negara.

Adakah Kabinet gergasi Muhyiddin pernah memikirkan persoalan mengenai mengapa negara lain boleh mengawal wabak ini dengan lebih baik tanpa perlu mengisytiharkan darurat atau menggantung sidang Parlimen?

Malah, Amerika Syarikat juga berjaya beralih arah selepas menjadi negara terburuk di dunia di bawah pimpinan Donald Trump yang meninggalkan pejabat presiden pada 20 Januari 2021 dengan 25 juta kes Covid-19 dan 400,000 kematian dan kadar kenaikan kes harian sebanyak 200,000 kes.

Sejak Biden mengangkat sumpah sebagai Presiden AS pada 20 Januari 2021, kadar peningkatan harian di AS adalah serendah 42,098 kes pada 25 April.

Kini terdapat perlumbaan melawan masa, di antara vaksin dan virus.

Janji utama Biden adalah untuk memberikan 100 juta suntikan vaksin kepada rakyat Amerika menjelang 100 hari pertama beliau menjadi Presiden. Kini, kira-kira 290 juta suntikan vaksin telah diedarkan, 230 juta suntikan diberikan, dan kira-kira 96 juta rakyat AS menerima imunisasi penuh, 29% daripada jumlah penduduk.

Amerika Syarikat kini adalah negara yang telah memvaksinasi paling ramai penduduk berbanding dengan mana-mana negara di dunia, walaupun wabak ini juga telah mengorbankan 572,000 nyawa di AS, angka tertinggi di dunia.

Lebih daripada 3,000 orang mati setiap hari semasa Biden mula menjadi presiden. Kini, angka tersebut berada di bawah kadar 700 sehari.

100 hari yang akan datang untuk Biden akan memberikan cabaran untuk beliau berhadapan dengan keengganan orang menerima vaksin dan peningkatan varian baharu virus ini.

Tetapi, di Malaysia, kita masih bergelut untuk mengawal gelombang penularan ketiga — yang merupakan gelombang penularan terpanjang di dunia — dengan menurunkan kadar kes harian ke julat tiga dan kemudiannya dua angka.

Tetapi, terdapat kemungkinan merbahaya yang sebelum kita dapat mengawal gelombang ketiga ini, kita mungkin akan berhadapan dengan gelombang keempat.

Cara untuk mengelakkan gelombang keempat ini adalah untuk segera memanggil sidang Parlimen untuk menggerakkan pendekatan dan strategi yang melibatkan “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyarakat” dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19 — satu seruan yang saya telah buat sepanjang tahun tetapi tidak dipedulikan!

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 30 April 2021)

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Deputy IGP Acryl should instruct police to open investigation into IGP Hamid Bador’s various allegations of  police  corruption and interference with police independence and professionalism if he is not to assume the IGP office on May 4  with the greatest trust deficit

Deputy Inspector-General of Police Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani should instruct police to open investigation into the IGP, Abdul Hamid Bador’s various allegations of police corruption and interference with police independence and professionalism.

Deputy IGP Acryl was reported by Berita Harian as saying that Federal Police have opened an investigation paper into the case of a newsreader who had allegedly made slanderous remarks on television under Section 504 of the Penal Code for intentionally insulting any person with the likelihood that such provocation will break the public peace.

The offence is punishable with two years’ imprisonment, a fine, or both. Acryl said the remarks by the newsreader could cause public hatred towards the authorities, including the police.

Acryl, who will become the IGP on May 4, should realise that he will start off as the nation’s No. 1 Policeman with the greatest problem of trust deficit if he does not open police investigation into the various allegations of police corruption and interference with police independence and professionalism made by the IGP Abdul Hamid Bador in his farewell media conference yesterday.

I agree with the Johore DAP Assemblyman for Paloh, Sheikh Umar Bagharib Ali , that there is something amiss in Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin’s admission that he was the person in an audio clip where participants discussed the restructuring of police top brass.

How can Hamzah claim that he had done nothing wrong after admitting that the voice in a viral audio clip discussing the selection of a new police chief was his, when virtually  the whole country feels that it is most wrong and improper for him to do so and  which cannot be shaken off by claiming that it was the  person who taped the conversation who  had committed a wrong?

It is very fortunate that Parliament has been suspended or he will be sizzled in Parliament.  Is this the reason why Parliament is suspended and the Cabinet refuse to advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to convene Parliament, despite the Yang di Pertuan declaring that Parliament can reconvene during the Emergency?

To prove his innocence that he had not committed any wrong, is Hamzah  prepared to ask the Cabinet next Wednesday to set up a Royal Commission to conduct a public hearing to determine whether it was wrong for a Chairman of the Police Commission to  make such a statement about the appointment of the next Inspector-General of Police?

(Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on

Saturday, 1st May 2012)

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For fifty years, nobody was bothered about the DAP Johore party election but now it is the top national news and focus – that is what Liew Chin Tong has achieved

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For 50 years, nobody was bothered about the DAP Johore party  election but now it is the top national news and focus – that is what Liew Chih Tong has achieved.

From the political backwaters as the bulwark of a conservative regime that thrives on the politics of race to a front-line state for change and reform in pursuit of the Malaysian Dream  to realize Malaysia’s potential as a world-class great nation – that is what Liew Chin Tong had accomplished in his ten years of political life in Johore!

Should we toast him for his achievements, despite his faults and mistakes, or should we condemn him for his success?

Of course, there were mistakes and setbacks, but as a movement, we must learn from our past to create a better future.

DAP has recently been in the news because this is party election time both at state and national levels.

We must allow freedom of expression and criticism of party and the country’s directions but we cannot be blind to external forces which want to split and destroy the DAP.

In the 55-year history of DAP, there had been many attempts to split and destroy the DAP – but they all had failed so far, and not prevented a political party of 20,000 members which fought the first general election in 1969 from being a major political force on May 9, 2018 in helping to achieve the historic result of a peaceful and democratic transition of power in six decades in the nation.

The worst time was in the early  seventies, where a top UMNO leader declared that the DAP was “neither dead nor alive” and there was high-powered scheme to crush  the DAP, where all the resources and money power of the state were abused  to intimidate or buy over DAP Members of Parliament and State Assembly members.

One DAP MP even crossed the floor in Parliament to become a Minister!

DAP did not die or disappear because, as described by the DAP supporter to a news website, “DAP leaders, members and supporters did not flinch when many of them had to pay a heavy price for their political beliefs, losing their personal liberties when detained without trial under the Internal Security Act, prosecuted, convicted and jailed on politically trumped-up charges or victimized in a large variety of ways”.

DAP leaders and activists were detained without trial under the Internal Security Act (ISA) or dragged to court to be tried under the Police Act, the Sedition Act or the Official Secrets Act but these did not succeed in breaking the spirit and will of DAP leaders and supporters  for change and betterment of the people’s lives.

DAP leaders were demonised and character-assassinated, accused on the one hand as anti-Malay and anti-Islam and on the other  of having betrayed the rights, position and future of the Chinese (which is an impossibility!).

While we welcome honest debate about the future of the DAP and the nation, we must not be entrapped by our political opponents to  split and destroy the DAP by adopting their lies, falsehoods, half-truths, fake news and  demonisation.

I am glad that  more than a week has passed and I am still waiting for evidence as to how my stand on Jawi in 2019 had betrayed the rights, interests and future of the Chinese in Malaysia or that I have changed in 2019 my stand on Jawi in 1984 or that the DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng had declared that he was not a Chinese when he was appointed Finance Minister, when he was stressing the point that he would be a Finance Minister for all Malaysians.

Frustrations and disappointments about the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government have been brought up.

I have myself said that Pakatan Harapan must learn the lessons from the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government whose five-year mandate was cut short by the Sheraton Move conspiracy which brought in a backdoor, undemocratic, incompetent, kakistocratic and illegitimate government.

Was the DAP responsible for the then Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s speech in the United Nations that the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) will be ratified? No.

Did I say that one who does not know Jawi is not fit to be a Malaysian? Never.

Did I change my stand on Jawi in 1984? No.

Did the DAP introduce Jawi for Chinese and Tamil primary schools in 2019? No. It was MCA and MIC who made the decision in September 2015 to change curriculum for Chinese and Tamil primary schools from 2017 to 2022.

Was there any change in the introduction of Jawi for Chinese and Tamil primary schools? Yes. DAP Ministers changed a  compulsory introduction to an optional introduction, where there is no compulsion,  no examination and no compulsory  learning/writing of Jawi.

Unhappiness have been raised about the appointment of the National Chairman as  Special Chinese Envoy not accorded the Ministerial rank and the Sarawak DAP Chairman given a full Ministerial post.

These unhappiness are legitimate. I am also unhappy.  But if we cannot get what we wanted  in these two positions, do we decide to  pull DAP  out from  the Pakatan Harapan government?

If we had done so, we would be accused by our supporters of prioritising the interests of the DAP leaders over the interests of the people.

As one of DAP supporter wrote in a “letter to the editor” column: “In that event, most of us would have condemned DAP for not toeing the line and not finishing the term and blamed DAP for causing a premature collapse of the government.”

Somehow, the dissatisfactions in the DAP is linked with the idea that Dr. Mahathir Mohamad will be Prime Minister for the third time.

I had told many people, including the  Opposition Leader and PKR President, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, that Mahathir will not become a Prime Minister for the third time.

This was long before Dr. Mahathir publicly stated to Bernama  on April 14, 2021  that he had no wish to become Prime Minister for the third time as he is 95 years old.

I am glad that after  my clarification two week ago that  there is no DAP policy to de-Chinese, de-Malay, de-Indian, de-Kadazan, de-Iban policy or de-Orang Asli anyone, this  baseless  allegation of DAP trying to de-Chinese DAP has not been pursued.

DAP stands for the exact opposite –  for  the Malaysian Dream where  all Malaysians regardless of race, religion or region will have multiple identities,  ethnic, cultural, linguistic, regional,  but first and foremost that they are all Malaysians.

After the allegation that the DAP was trying to de-Chinese, there is now  the allegation that there is division and conflict  between the so-called elitists and the grassroots in the Party.  This is most fictional.

DAP cadres are very different from MCA and Gerakan members. DAP cadres all over the country take their responsibility whether as ketua kampongs or ahli majlis very seriously, even spending their own money and resources to serve the people, while MCA and Gerakan members mostly take the opportunity of their appointment as ketua kampong or ahli majlis to see what they can personally gain from it, including getting land with or without titles.

I  welcome honest views and criticisms as to how the DAP can better achieve the Malaysian Dream, and go forward to achieve new political breakthroughs for the interests of the nation and people but we must not be blind to external forces out to split and break the DAP.

All  DAP leaders, cadres and members have one task and challenge – how to re-inspire, re-motivate, re-energise Malaysians in the pursuit of the Malaysian Dream to be an united world-class great nation and to win in the 15th General Election to implement the promises that we have not been able to fulfil after the 14th General Election.

I know I  am making an unusual call.

Normally, calls to contending candidates to close ranks and rally behind the movement is made after an election.

I am making the call to contending candidates to close ranks and rally behind the DAP before election.

This is the way for Johore DAP to set the pace for the rest of the country.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, May 1, 2021)

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Untuk lima puluh tahun, tidak ada yang peduli dengan pemilihan parti DAP Johor tetapi sekarang perkara ini menjadi berita dan fokus nasional — itulah pencapaian Liew Chin Tong

Untuk lima puluh tahun, tidak ada yang peduli dengan pemilihan parti DAP Johor tetapi sekarang perkara ini menjadi berita dan fokus nasional — itulah pencapaian Liew Chin Tong.

Dari latar belakang politik sebagai benteng rejim konservatif yang berkembang maju dalam politik perlumbaan ke negara barisan depan untuk perubahan dan reformasi dalam mengejar Impian Malaysia untuk merealisasikan potensi Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara besar bertaraf dunia — itulah kejayaan Liew Chin Tong dalam sepuluh tahun perjalanan politiknya di Johor!

Adakah kita patut meraikan pencapaiannya, walaupun ada salah dan kurangnya, atau patutkah kita mengutuk pencapaiannya ini?

Sudah tentu, ada kesilapan dan kekurangan, tetapi sebagai satu pergerakan, kita perlu belajar dari masa lalu untuk mencipta masa depan yang lebih baik.

DAP baru-baru ini menjadi topik berita kerana sekarang adalah waktu pemilihan parti di peringkat negeri dan kebangsaan.

Kita perlu membenarkan kebebasan untuk bersuara dan mengkritik parti dan arah tuju negara tetapi kita tidak boleh buta terhadap anasir luar yang ingin memecahkan dan menghancurkan DAP.

Dalam sejarah 55 tahun DAP, terdapat banyak percubaan untuk memecah belahkan dan menghancurkan DAP — tetapi mereka semua telah gagal sejauh ini, dan tidak menghalang sebuah parti politik yang terdiri daripada 20,000 ahli yang bertanding dalam pilihan raya pertama pada tahun 1969 menjadi besar kekuatan politik pada 9 Mei 2018 dalam membantu mencapai hasil bersejarah dari peralihan kuasa secara aman dan demokratik dalam enam dekad di negara ini.

Masa terburuk adalah pada awal tahun tujuh puluhan, di mana seorang pemimpin tertinggi UMNO menyatakan bahawa DAP “tidak mati atau tidak hidup” dan ada skema berkuasa tinggi untuk menghancurkan DAP, di mana semua sumber dan kuasa wang negeri disalah gunakan untuk menakut-nakutkan atau membeli Ahli Parlimen dan ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri DAP.

Malah, seorang Ahli Parlimen DAP melintasi lantai Parlimen untuk menjadi Menteri!

DAP tidak mati atau hilang kerana, seperti yang dijelaskan oleh penyokong DAP ke laman web berita, “Pemimpin, ahli dan penyokong DAP tidak tersentak ketika banyak dari mereka terpaksa membayar harga yang tinggi atas kepercayaan politik mereka, kehilangan kebebasan peribadi ketika ditahan tanpa perbicaraan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri, ditindas, disabitkan dan dipenjara atas tuduhan yang yang dibuat-buat secara politik atau menjadi mangsa dalam pelbagai cara ”

Pemimpin dan aktivis DAP ditahan tanpa perbicaraan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) atau diseret ke mahkamah untuk ddakwa di bawah Akta Polis, Akta Hasutan atau Akta Rahsia Rasmi tetapi ini tidak berjaya mematahkan semangat dan kehendak pemimpin dan penyokong DAP untuk perubahan dan peningkatan kehidupan rakyat.

Pemimpin DAP telah dihina dan dimomokkan, dituduh di satu pihak sebagai anti-Melayu dan anti-Islam dan di pihak lain telah mengkhianati hak, kedudukan dan masa depan orang Cina (yang mustahil!).

Walaupun kita menyambut perdebatan yang jujur mengenai masa depan DAP dan negara, kita tidak boleh terperangkap dengan lawan politik kita yang cuba untuk memecahkan dan memusnahkan DAP dengan mengadopsi pembohongan, kepalsuan, kebenaran setengah, berita palsu dan syaitan.

Saya gembira kerana lebih dari seminggu telah berlalu dan saya masih menunggu bukti bagaimana pendirian saya terhadap Jawi pada tahun 2019 telah mengkhianati hak, kepentingan dan masa depan orang Cina di Malaysia atau bahawa saya telah mengubah pendirian saya mengenai Jawi pada tahun 2019 pada tahun 1984 atau Setiausaha Agung DAP Lim Guan Eng telah menyatakan bahawa dia bukan orang Cina ketika dilantik sebagai Menteri Kewangan, ketika dia menekankan bahawa dia akan menjadi Menteri Kewangan untuk semua rakyat Malaysia.

Kekecewaan dan kekecewaan mengenai Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan muncul.

Saya sendiri mengatakan bahawa Pakatan Harapan mesti mengambil iktibar dari Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan 22 bulan yang mandatnya selama lima tahun dipotong oleh konspirasi Sheraton Move yang membawa pemerintahan belakang, tidak demokratik, tidak kompeten, kakistokratik dan tidak sah.

Adakah DAP bertanggungjawab atas ucapan Perdana Menteri ketika itu, Dr Mahathir Mohamad di PBB bahawa Konvensyen Antarabangsa mengenai Penghapusan Segala Bentuk Diskriminasi Kaum (ICERD) akan disahkan? Tidak.

Adakah saya mengatakan bahawa orang yang tidak mengenali Jawi tidak sesuai untuk menjadi rakyat Malaysia? Tidak pernah.

Adakah saya mengubah pendirian saya mengenai Jawi pada tahun 1984? Tidak.

Adakah DAP memperkenalkan Jawi untuk sekolah rendah Cina dan Tamil pada tahun 2019? Tidak. MCA dan MIC yang membuat keputusan pada bulan September 2015 untuk menukar kurikulum untuk sekolah rendah Cina dan Tamil dari 2017 hingga 2022.

Adakah terdapat perubahan dalam pengenalan Jawi untuk sekolah rendah Cina dan Tamil? Ya. Menteri DAP mengubah pengenalan wajib kepada pengenalan pilihan, di mana tidak ada paksaan, tidak ada peperiksaan dan tidak ada pembelajaran / penulisan Jawi wajib.

Rasa tidak senang telah timbul mengenai pelantikan Pengerusi Kebangsaan sebagai Duta Khas ke China yang tidak mendapat pangkat Menteri dan Pengerusi DAP Sarawak tidak diberi jawatan Menteri penuh.

Rasa tidak senang ini sah. Saya juga tidak berpuas hati. Tetapi jika kita tidak dapat memperoleh apa yang kita mahukan dalam dua kedudukan ini, adakah kita memutuskan untuk menarik DAP keluar dari kerajaan Pakatan Harapan?

Sekiranya kita melakukannya, kita akan dituduh oleh penyokong kita mengutamakan kepentingan pemimpin DAP daripada kepentingan rakyat.

Seperti yang ditulis oleh salah seorang penyokong DAP dalam kolum “surat kepada editor”: “Dalam keadaan itu, kebanyakan kita akan mengecam DAP kerana tidak menghormati pendirian pakatan menyelesaikan masalah tersebut dan akan menyalahkan DAP kerana menyebabkan kejatuhan kerajaan yang terlalu awal. ”

Entah bagaimana, rasa tidak puas hati dalam DAP dikaitkan dengan idea bahawa Dr Mahathir Mohamad akan menjadi Perdana Menteri untuk kali ketiga.

Saya telah memberitahu ramai orang, termasuk Ketua Pembangkang dan Presiden PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, bahawa Mahathir tidak akan menjadi Perdana Menteri untuk kali ketiga.

Ini sudah lama sebelum Dr Mahathir secara terbuka menyatakan kepada Bernama pada 14 April 2021 bahawa dia tidak berhasrat untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri untuk kali ketiga kerana dia berusia 95 tahun.

Saya gembira bahawa setelah penjelasan saya dua minggu lalu bahawa tidak ada dasar DAP terhadap dasar nyah-Cina, nyah-Melayu, nyah-India, nyah-Kadazan, nyah-Iban atau nyah-Orang Asli, tuduhan tidak berasas bahawa DAP cuba untuk nyah-Cina ini tidak lagi digunkanan.

DAP bermaksud sebaliknya – untuk Impian Malaysia di mana semua rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengira bangsa, agama atau wilayah akan mempunyai pelbagai identiti, etnik, budaya, linguistik, wilayah, tetapi yang pertama dan paling penting bahawa mereka semua adalah rakyat Malaysia.

Setelah tuduhan bahawa DAP cuba menipu orang Cina, kini ada tuduhan bahawa terdapat perpecahan dan konflik antara golongan elit dan akar umbi dalam Parti. Ini paling fiksyen.

Kader DAP sangat berbeza dengan ahli MCA dan Gerakan. Kader-kader DAP di seluruh negara mengambil tanggungjawab mereka sama ada sebagai ketua kampung atau ahli majlis dengan sangat serius, bahkan menghabiskan wang dan sumber daya mereka sendiri untuk memenuhi keperluan rakyat, sementara anggota MCA dan Gerakan kebanyakannya mengambil kesempatan pelantikan mereka sebagai ketua kampong atau ahli majlis untuk lihat apa yang dapat mereka perolehi secara peribadi, termasuk mendapatkan tanah dengan atau tanpa hak milik.

Saya mengalu-alukan pandangan dan kritikan yang jujur mengenai bagaimana DAP dapat mencapai Impian Malaysia dengan lebih baik, dan terus maju untuk mencapai kejayaan politik baru untuk kepentingan negara dan rakyat tetapi kita tidak harus buta terhadap kekuatan luar untuk berpecah dan memecah belahkan DAP .

Semua pemimpin, kader dan ahli DAP mempunyai satu tugas dan cabaran – bagaimana memberi inspirasi, motivasi semula, semangat semula rakyat Malaysia dalam usaha mencapai Impian Malaysia untuk menjadi sebuah negara besar bertaraf dunia yang bersatu dan menang pada Umum ke-15 Pilihan raya untuk melaksanakan janji-janji yang belum dapat kita tunaikan setelah Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14.

Saya tahu bahawa saya membuat seruan yang luar biasa.

Pada kebiasaannya, seruan kepada calon-calon yang bertanding untuk merapatkan barisan pimpinan dan bersatu di belakang gerakan dibuat selepas pilihan raya.

Saya menyeru calon-calon yang bersaing untuk menduduki barisan pimpinan dan berkumpul di belakang DAP sebelum pemilihan.

Ini adalah cara bagi DAP Johor untuk mengatur langkah untuk seluruh negara.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Sabtu, 1 Mei 2021)

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#kerajaangagal15 – Covid-19 pandemic: why are we looking at India which set a new world  record of daily increase of  402,110 new   Covid-19 cases yesterday instead of the successful nations like Thailand, Vietnam or even Singapore?

For the past four days, the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s speech in his constituency in Bukit Gambir had stuck in my throat.

Speaking at the Gambir State Assemby-level Tahlil ceremony and presentation of Ramadan Al-Mubarak contributions at Masjid Jamek Simpang Lima Darat, Muhyuiddin said he had watched video footage of the current Covid-19 situation in India, which was quite horrific due to the spread of the more aggressive variant, that has claimed more lives.

He said: “When I saw what’s happening in India, like I said earlier (such as) in Brazil (and) in many countries the new variant has been found to be more aggressive than the original one. All these (development) put us in a very challenging situation.

“We can’t be complacent for even one day, we can’t because maybe in a day unthinkable things can happen and this can have an effect on the lives and economy of our country.”

The nagging thought which l had wrestled for four days is why Malaysia should end up like India in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and not compared with the better performing nations in the world?

Why we are looking at India which yesterday set another world record of daily increase of 402,110 new Covid-19 cases and has a cumulative total of 19.3 million Covid-19 cases, instead of successful nations like Thailand (cumulative total 65,153 cases), Vietnam (cumulative total 2,928 cases)  or even Singapore (cumulative total 61,145 cases)

Malaysia’s cumulative total of Covid-19 cases is now 408,713 cases – India in one day has  almost matched Malaysia’s Covid-19 total cumulative  cases for  more than a year!

Malaysia’s cumulative total is bad enough, placing us on the 43rd rank among nations in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases when China, which was the worst country in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases early last year is now ranked No. 96 with a cumulative total of 90,655 cases?

The long and short of the war  against Covid-19 pandemic is that Malaysia has failed during the nearly four months of emergency and suspension of Parliament to bring the third Covid-19 wave in Malaysia under control.

Instead of reducing the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases to triple-digit and then to double-digit numbers, we are seeing more new Covid-19 cases daily than when emergency was declared on January 12 (when there were 3,309 new cases as compared to 3,788 new cases yesterday and 3,332 new cases a day earlier).

Even the Yang di Pertuan Agong is concerned  about a fourth Covid-19 wave in Malaysia which would “threaten and worsen the country’s economy and the people’s socio-economy” and he  has urged the people to be disciplined in complying with the SOPs.

But the Muhyiddin government is not setting a good example.  Instead of spearheading an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” national mobilisation in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, it decided to declare an emergency and suspend Parliament which aggravated the Covid-19 pandemic.

The declaration of emergency which suspended Parliament is most problematic.

For instance, can the proclamation of emergency suspend the judiciary or the system of constitutional monarchy?

I call on Muhyiddin to prescribe the proper antidote to the Covid-19 pandemic – to immediately convene Parliament to spearhead an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

But the disastrous handling of the Covid-19 pandemic  is not the only  example justifying the hashtag  #kerajaangagal

The media are full of examples of   #kerajaangagal in Malaysia and  there is no better example and authority than the Inspector-General, Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador who in his final press conference as IGP revealed:

1.     Political intervention in the police force.

2.     Political interference in the Police Force Commission.

3.     Corruption in the civil service and politics. Hamid said: “I fight corruption in the force, but I see corruption everywhere in power-drunk politics.” He asked why the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has not  investigated the “political frogs”.

4.     “Unintelligent Ministers” who asked to loosen roadblocks during MCO and CMCOs.

I support Bersih’s call for reform on how  top judges and high-ranking government officials like the IGP are hired and fired to put an end to abuse of power.

Can Malaysia be saved from kakistocracy?

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, May 1, 2021)

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Call for public inquiry into the shocking allegation of “prison inmates being pepper-sprayed on their privates during quarantine”

(Tatal ke bawah untuk kenyataan versi BM)

I call for a public inquiry into the shocking allegation of “prison inmates pepper-sprayed on their private parts during quarantine”.

The families of 10 prison inmates have filed police reports after their incarcerated relatives claimed to have been abused while being quarantined at the Jelebu Prison in Negeri Sembilan.

Among the allegations is that the inmates’ genitals and anuses were pepper-sprayed causing them to be unable to urinate or defecate.

At the media conference in Cheras yesterday, some family members wept while telling their relatives’ ordeals.

One of them, R Lavaniyaa, said her husband B Kalaiarasan was contemplating suicide.

“He said ‘If I stay inside I will die in prison. I will either kill myself or be beaten to death’” said Lavaniyaa.

She was too overwhelmed to continue speaking.

According to her police report, on April 8 her husband and 21 other detainees were transferred from the Sungai Udang Prison in Malacca to be quarantined for 14 days at the Jelebu Prison after returning from the Seremban courts.

There, they were allegedly beaten by prison officers using PVC pipes while they were still handcuffed before being beaten by others using canes, pipes, chairs, wood pieces and other objects for what he claimed was for an hour.

Some of those who allegedly attacked the inmates wore plain clothes including shorts and slippers.

After the beating, they were then ordered into a room in pairs of two, told to take off their pants and underwear before a prison guard allegedly pepper sprayed their private parts.

They were then reportedly told to lie on the floor naked. Lavaniyaa claimed that according to Kalaiarasan, the inmates were later subjected to more beatings that carried on into the night.

Her brother-in-law’s wife Elisha Teh, who was present, said they met Kalaiarasan on April 27 – the first time they’d met this year. During that meeting, Kalaiarasan complained that his genitals were still bleeding.

None of the 22 detainees allegedly abused and beaten received hospital treatment except for one person who was hospitalised because of tuberculosis.

It is shocking and completely unacceptable that prisoners are treated worse than animals, completely denied their human rights.

It is equally shocking that many hair-raising stories about cruelty, brutality and inhumanity in prisons and police lock-ups are appearing during the tenure of Hamzah Zainuddin as Home Minister and even the retiring  Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador  had complained in his farewell media conference last Friday, four days before the end of this term,  that Hamzah  had  politically interfered with the police and prevented  it from becoming an independent, professional and world-class police force.

Last Wednesday, I had called for a public inquiry into the  death of A. Ganapathy, who had worked as a trader selling cow’s milk and had two children aged five and seven years old.

The death of Ganapathy occurred almost one month after being admitted to the Selayang Hospital’s intensive care unit following his arrest by police to assist an investigation.

The deceased’s mother claimed that her son was denied his right to receive medical treatment, and he was beaten, resulting in a serious injury while he was in detention.

Forty-year-old A Ganapathy was arrested on Feb 24 to facilitate an investigation into a sibling who was wanted by the police.

He was released on March 8 but was admitted to Selayang Hospital’s intensive care unit.

His 60-year-old mother, S Thanaletchumy, said her son told her that police had beaten him with a rubber hose.

His family claimed Ganapathy’s health deteriorated because of his stint in police custody, resulting in his leg being swollen and bruised as though he had been beaten.

I had  welcomed  the MIC proposal for an independent investigation into the death of A. Ganapathy, but unfortunately, the MIC Minister, the Minister for Human Resources, Datuk Seri Saravanan Murugan dared not raise the issue in  Cabinet.

MIC had also called for the long-talked about  Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) to be set up. But again, Saravanan dared not take up the IPCMC issue in Cabinet.

The IPCMC idea was first proposed in the Royal Police Commision report in 2004.

Three Prime Ministers have come and gone, and the fourth Prime Minister who had committed himself to set up the IPCMC in 2019 when he was Home Minister in 2019  is still dragging his feet on the matter.

Malaysians must speak up  to demand public inquiries into the shocking allegation of “prison inmates pepper-sprayed on their private parts during quarantine” as well as into the death A. Ganapathy.

Is Parliament being suspended to allow untrammelled and unchecked  abuse of power by  certain political leaders?

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, May 2, 2021)

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Seruan siasatan terbuka mengenai tuduhan mengejutkan di mana “banduan disembur dengan penyembur lada di bahagian sulit semasa kuarantin”

Saya menyeru supaya satu siasatan terbuka mengenai tuduhan mengejutkan di mana “banduan disembur dengan penyembur lada di bahagian sulit semasa kuarantin”

Keluarga 10 tahanan penjara telah membuat laporan polis setelah saudara mereka yang dipenjara mengaku dianiaya ketika dikuarantin di Penjara Jelebu di Negeri Sembilan.

Antara tuduhan tersebut adalah bahawa alat kelamin dan jubur tahanan disembur lada menyebabkan mereka tidak dapat membuang air kecil atau buang air besar.

Pada sidang media di Cheras semalam, beberapa ahli keluarga menangis ketika memberitahu penderitaan saudara mereka.

Salah seorang dari mereka, R Lavaniyaa, mengatakan suaminya B Kalaiarasan berfikir untuk membunuh diri.

“Dia berkata ‘Jika saya tinggal di dalam, saya akan mati di penjara. Saya akan bunuh diri atau dipukul hingga mati'” kata Lavaniyaa.

Dia terlalu hiba untuk terus bercakap.

Menurut laporan polisnya, pada 8 April suaminya dan 21 tahanan lain dipindahkan dari Penjara Sungai Udang di Melaka untuk dikuarantin selama 14 hari di Penjara Jelebu setelah kembali dari mahkamah Seremban.

Di sana, mereka mendakwa dipukul oleh pegawai penjara menggunakan paip PVC sementara mereka masih digari sebelum dipukul oleh dengan menggunakan tongkat, paip, kerusi, kepingan kayu dan benda lain selama satu jam.

Sebahagian daripada mereka yang dikatakan menyerang banduan memakai pakaian biasa termasuk seluar pendek dan selipar.

Setelah dipukul, mereka kemudian diperintahkan ke sebuah bilik secara berpasangan dua orang, disuruh menanggalkan seluar dan seluar dalam mereka sebelum seorang warden penjara didakwa menyembur lada ke bahagian peribadi mereka.

Mereka kemudian diberitahu untuk berbaring di lantai dalam keadaan telanjang. Lavaniyaa mendakwa bahawa menurut Kalaiarasan, banduan kemudiannya terus dipukul berlanjutan hingga malam.

Isteri abang iparnya, Elisha Teh, yang hadir, mengatakan bahawa mereka bertemu dengan Kalaiarasan pada 27 April – kali pertama mereka bertemu tahun ini. Dalam pertemuan itu, Kalaiarasan mengadu bahawa alat kelaminnya masih berdarah.

Tidak ada 22 tahanan yang didakwa dianiaya dan dipukul mendapat rawatan di hospital kecuali satu orang yang dimasukkan ke hospital kerana batuk kering.

Sangat mengejutkan dan tidak boleh diterima bahawa tahanan diperlakukan lebih buruk daripada haiwan, sama sekali menafikan hak asasi mereka.

Sama mengejutkan apabila banyak kisah mengenai kekejaman dan kezaliman yang tidak berperikemanusiaan di penjara dan lokap polis muncul semasa Hamzah Zainuddin menjadi Menteri Dalam Negeri dan bahkan Ketua Polis Negara yang bakal bersara, Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador dalam sidang media perpisahannya pada hari Jumaat yang lalu, empat hari sebelum akhir penggal ini, mengatakan bahawa Hamzah selalu melakukan campur tangan politik terhadap pasukan polis dan menghalangnya daripada menjadi pasukan polis yang bebas, profesional dan bertaraf dunia.

Rabu lalu, saya telah meminta siasatan terbuka diadakan mengenai kematian A. Ganapathy, yang pernah bekerja sebagai peniaga menjual susu lembu dan mempunyai dua orang anak berusia lima dan tujuh tahun.

Kematian Ganapathy berlaku hampir satu bulan selepas dia dimasukkan ke unit rawatan rapi Hospital Selayang berikutan penangkapannya oleh polis untuk membantu siasatan.

Ibu si mati mendakwa bahawa anaknya dinafikan haknya untuk mendapatkan rawatan perubatan, dan dia dipukul, mengakibatkan kecederaan parah ketika dia dalam tahanan.

A Ganapathy yang berusia empat puluh tahun ditangkap pada 24 Februari untuk memudahkan siasatan terhadap adik beradik yang dikehendaki oleh polis.

Dia dibebaskan pada 8 Mac tetapi dimasukkan ke unit rawatan rapi Hospital Selayang.

Ibunya yang berusia 60 tahun, S Thanaletchumy, mengatakan bahawa anaknya memberitahu bahawa polis telah memukulnya dengan paip getah.

Keluarganya mendakwa kesihatan Ganapathy merosot dalam tahanan polis, mengakibatkan kakinya bengkak dan lebam seolah-olah dia dipukul.

Saya telah mengalu-alukan cadangan MIC untuk membuka satu penyiasatan terbuka terhadap kematian A. Ganapathy, tetapi sayangnya, Menteri MIC, Menteri Sumber Manusia, Datuk Seri Saravanan Murugan tidak berani membangkitkan masalah ini dalam Kabinet.

MIC juga meminta agar dibentuk Suruhanjaya Bebas Aduan dan Salah Laku Polis (IPCMC) yang telah lama dibicarakan. Tetapi sekali lagi, Saravanan tidak berani mengambil isu IPCMC di Kabinet.

Idea IPCMC pertama kali dicadangkan dalam laporan Suruhanjaya Diraja mengenai Polis pada tahun 2004.

Tiga Perdana Menteri telah datang dan pergi, dan Perdana Menteri keempat yang telah berkomitmen untuk menubuhkan IPCMC pada tahun 2019 ketika dia menjadi Menteri Dalam Negeri pada tahun 2019 masih terus berdiri.

Rakyat Malaysia mesti bersuara untuk menuntut siasatan terbuka mengenai tuduhan mengejutkan di mana “tahanan penjara disembur lada di bahagian peribadi mereka semasa kuarantin” dan juga isu kematian A. Ganapathy.

Adakah Parlimen digantung untuk membenarkan penyalahgunaan kuasa yang tidak teratur dan tidak terkawal oleh pemimpin politik tertentu?

(Kenyataan Media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Ahad, 2 Mei 2021)

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