DAP national chairperson Lim Guan Eng was labelled a hypocrite by Perikatan Nasional (PN) Youth chief Ahmad Fadhli Shaari, who claimed the former was playing up racial issues.
Fadhli (above) said the PN Youth machinery has since been instructed to lodge police reports nationwide in protest against Lim over the “rude” remarks.
He was referring to news reports alleging that Lim had said PN would destroy temples in Penang if the coalition were to come to power after the upcoming state polls.
“This statement is the culmination of racial provocations that will destroy the peace and unity of Malaysians, simply because they (DAP) are afraid of seeing the rejection of the rakyat towards the coalition government that is full of deception, manipulation, and successive failures during the seven months of this failed government.
“Police reports will be made throughout the country to protest against the racial attitude of this DAP leader. This directive is for all PN Youth machinery nationwide,” Fadhli said in a statement today.
Lim had previously denied making claims that PN will destroy Buddhist or Chinese temples in Penang if it took over the state government.
The former Penang chief minister said his speech in Mandarin had been “spun” in news reports to give such an impression.
He clarified that his speech was made in reference to a case of a Hindu temple in Kedah being demolished in July 2020.
Meanwhile, Fadhli said PN strongly condemned Lim’s statement and described it as a lie to cover up their failure in governing the country.
“Hypocrite! That is the only word that deserves to be used on these leaders of the coalition government, who supposedly loudly denounced using the 3R (royalty, religion, race) issues, including another R which is region.
“But when such statements related to the 4Rs are uttered by Pakatan Harapan leaders, they lament in a thousand languages.
“The ministers who previously warned that action will be taken if such issues were raised, what actions will you take now,” he questioned.
Previously, PN called on the government to take stern action against DAP for allegedly using issues touching on the 3Rs ahead of the state elections.
In response, Lim accused PAS and PN of being the ones to constantly play up the 3R issues.- Mkini
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