Umno, PAS playing dangerous race game, says Guan Eng

Ravin Palanisamy Lee Chi Leong Ravin Palanisamy, Lee Chi Leong Updated 5 years ago · Published on 24 Jan 2019 7:00AM · 6 Comments

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng at a ceramah in Tanah Rata yesterday where he warns of serious consequences if the BN candidate wins on Saturday. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, January 24, 2019.

UMNO and PAS are stirring up racial hatred in the Cameron Highlands by-election, said Lim Guan Eng, warning of serious consequences if they are allowed to win on Saturday. 

“If they win this time, only Muslims could be leaders and it would mean non-Muslims have no chance to be ministers or even members of parliament,” the DAP secretary-general said yesterday in a nod to PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s ceramah on Sunday.

Hadi, while campaigning in Jelai, said DAP has no concept of sin and heavenly reward (dosa pahala), urging a 1,000-strong crowd of Malay-Muslim farmers and Felda settlers in Sg Koyan 1 to pick the Barisan Nasional candidate, Ramli Mohd Nor, on the basis of faith alone.

Lim, who is also finance minister, urged a ceramah crowd in Tanah Rata last night to back the Pakatan Harapan candidate, M. Manogaran, who is also from DAP.

PH cannot afford to lose a single vote because that would make the opposition think that its extremist tactics work, Lim said.

A BN victory at Cameron Highlands will only embolden Umno and PAS to adopt even more extremist and racist views in the future, he said.

The crowd at the Tanah Rata ceramah yesterday. The Cameron Highlands by-election takes place this Saturday. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, January 24, 2019.

“If you vote for them (the opposition), then they have the tendency to become more extremist and racist. 

“In the future, if your child wants to be a minister or an MP, they would not stand a chance because of this dangerous racial tactic.”

He also took a swipe at the previous BN-led government, accusing it of being famously known as a corrupted government. 

“They (BN) would never speak about battling corruption. Just look at the 1MDB scandal, which has cost us RM100 billion in losses. 

“If we speak about a righteous leader, who would it be if you compared BN with Dr Mahathir (Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohmad) and Anwar (Ibrahim, prime minister-in-waiting). 

“If you look at the ability to manage the economy, who is better than Mahathir and Anwar or BN?” – January 24, 2019.

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  • We want good health, good life, safe environment. What the hack is race and religion doing in our politics?

    Posted 5 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • PAS and UMNO extremist tactics must be defeated this Saturday by election- P078. Say NO to racial and religious hatred. Respect all race and religion. That is ISLAM.

    Posted 5 years ago by Tam Yan Cheng · Reply

  • Playing with race and religion by the losers are certainly the most easily and cheapest way to move the rural voters. Hope this can be changed.

    Posted 5 years ago by Wei Kuan Tan · Reply

  • Playing with race and religion by the losers are certainly the most easily and cheapest way to move the rural voters. Hope this can be changed.

    Posted 5 years ago by Wei Kuan Tan · Reply

  • To UMNO and PAS, what happened to accountability, integrity, honesty, trustworthy and other universal values propagated by Islam?

    Posted 5 years ago by Malaysia Baru 09052018 · Reply

  • In any elections the art of politicking is anything goes to ensure a hard fought winning. The rakyat are not stupid in seeing that and neither do the rakyat blindly support the other political divide too. The easy dispensing of alluding comments and stirring remarks by PH politician are so brazen but on after elections not even a hurricane cud stirr them into fulling their pledge. Actually Umno /PAS needs to win anyone of the coming by-elections to keep PH in touch with reality. PH has taken for granted rakyat support and has been pussyfooting in all concerns. The audacious intra infighting in PKR and within PH condemning each other to Minister level is plain shit pit dealings. Rakyat never vote for that.

    Posted 5 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply