PENANG Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, under investigation for dancing to a children’s song mocking the goods and services tax (GST), said the move by police was harassment against him ahead of the general election.

Lim said he would give police full cooperation but said what he did does not warrant a “full-scale criminal investigation on a Penang chief minister”.

“Can this police action not be considered at best excessive and at worst, an abuse of power against a political opponent, in the run-up to the general election?” he said in a statement today.

Police reports were lodged against the DAP secretary-general, who had been launching a free tuition programme by the state government in Jelutong. The event was attended by children from a low-cost flat and a children’s song that had anti-GST lyrics was played.

Questioning the grounds of the investigation, Lim said the song did not name any Barisan Nasional leader nor any political party nor the BN government. 

He said no action was taken against Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, for entering a school in Putrajaya last October, where pupils sang Umno songs, shouted party slogans and waved Umno flags. – March 21, 2018.