Lims blamed for misleading people into backing PAS

The Star
Saturday July 4, 2009

KUALA LUMPUR: The DAP’s Lim Kit Siang and Lim Guan Eng should be held responsible for misleading the people into supporting PAS based on a fallacy, MCA non-governmental organisation liaison bureau chairman Datuk Ti Lian Ker said.

He said the father-and-son team had done this so that Guan Eng could continue to be the Penang Chief Minister.

As for Kit Siang, he said backing PAS would enable him to realise his dream of becoming a Federal Minister through an alliance with the Islamist party which, however, has a different political pursuit.

Ti said this in a statement yesterday in reaction to the Kedah DAP announcing that it was leaving the PAS-led Pakatan Rakyat state government.

He said the perception that PAS was abandoning its intention to set up an Islamic state was untrue. Instead, he said the party had never given up its politics of race and religion.
“This was clearly shown in the demolition of the only abattoir and the increase in the bumiputra housing quota to 50% in Kedah,” Ti said.

“DAP must come clean and tell the truth about PAS’ political agenda while acknowledging that their political alliance with the party was untenable."

“They must be honest in telling the people that PAS is a party with thick racial and religious overtones and as such, is unsuitable for a multi-racial country like Malaysia,” he said.

Ti said DAP leaders must respect the voices of the people in the spirit of democracy and not hoodwink their members into an unholy alliance again.