PARLIAMENT Dewan Rakyat speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia today criticised Abdul Rahman Dahlan, without naming the Umno minister, for uttering the word "bohong" (lie) in the House.
"One-and-a-half-hour fight erupted last night with the use of an unparliamentary word, which means 'lie'.
"If people are polite, like me, then his statement was not quite accurate, not right," he said.
Pandikar noted that former British prime minister, the late Winston Churchill, chose to use the phrase 'terminological inexactitude' in the House when he wasn't allowed to utter the word 'lie'.
"He (Churchill) said it is unparliamentary to consider another parliamentarian of lying even if they are.
"If I were in the House yesterday, I would have instructed the honourable minister to retract the word 'lie' which he had uttered," he said.
The use of the word "bohong" had sparked a fight yesterday, which ended with Lim Guan Eng (DAP-Bagan) getting the boot.
The fight began when Lim demanded Rahman, who is also Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister, to retract a statement he made last week, allegedly accusing the former of lying.
Rahman, however, defended himself, saying he had meant that Lim's statement that the affordable housing rate capped at RM400,000 was set by the federal government, was a lie.
Deputy speaker Ismail Mohamad Said agreed with Rahman, saying that the word "bohong" was not directed at Lim.
This set off an hour-long argument in the House, with Lim insisting that the word "bohong" was unparliamentary and that Rahman should retract it. -Mkini
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