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.
“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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