KUALA LUMPUR: After decades of lying to the Chinese community about a racist Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and accusing the MCA of compromising the Chinese community, the DAP had committed the ultimate betrayal to the Chinese.
This is by agreeing to make Dr Mahathir as the prime minister again said MCA Religious Harmony Bureau Chairman Datuk Seri Ti Lian Ker.
“The DAP may have conveniently chosen to forget their principles and the promises made to the people, especially to the Chinese community as a result of their greed for power and desire to be in Putrajaya but they should not treat their supporters and sympathisers like political zombies,” he said in a statement today.
Ti said many from different generations cannot erase their minds or trust Dr Mahathir again to be in power.
It is due following instances such as Dr Mahathir was responsible for bringing the downfall of Tunku Abdul Rahman who stood by the secular nature of Malaysia’s Constitution and recognition of the multiracial rights, post independence.
He adds that Dr Mahathir had also out-manoeuvred and forced out two moderate prime ministers, namely Tun Hussein Onn and Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Ti adds that Dr Mahathir is also the founder advisor of PERKASA, an extreme right wing organisation, of which many of its leaders had since joined Mahathir’s Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM).
“ This is also the reason why DAP had toned down their attack or am silent in their criticism on PERKASA since they embraced Mahathir.
“This goes to show that DAP was lying when they said they are opposing MCA for working with a race base party namely Umno.
“However one must also acknowledge that it was under Mahathir that Umno had been more Malay centric and not otherwise,” he said.
He adds that going by past record, Dr Mahathir will never honour any agreement prior to the elections.
“(Lim) Kit Siang must be dreaming thinking that Dr Mahathir will honour any agreements they may have made prior to GE14.
“As (Lim) Kit Siang had said before, Dr Mahathir had betrayed and deceived the Chinese by agreeing to the Suqiu (Federation of Chinese Organisations) demands for National Harmony before the 1999 GE and then after he won, he went back on his word and brandied those who pushed and supported Suqiu as communists, extremists and ingrates.”
Ti also said that DAP had also betrayed the people of Sabah by supporting the architect of Project IC to be Prime Minister once again.
“After the RCI on Project IC, Dr Mahathir openly admitted that he was responsible and even defended his actions claiming that there was nothing wrong in giving Citizenship to hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants.
“Dr Mahathir and (Datuk Seri) Anwar (Ibrahim) had promised the people of Sabah that there will be a rotation of the three major ethnic population to be their Chief Minister. This promise was again reneged.“
Ti said after three decades of misleading their supporters and sympathisers with different tales and stories , DAP must be dreaming to think that their lies and sincerity will go unpunished by the Chinese voters this time around.
“Maybe they are hoping to lie to get away with the generation of new voters but these group will definitely be more learned and alert,” he said.