Tuesday May 13, 2008
Keng Yaik: BN didn’t treat all parties fairly
GERAKAN adviser Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik has said Barisan Nasional component parties were treated like beggars.
In an exclusive interview with Sin Chew Daily, Dr Lim said Barisan failed to treat all its component parties fairly.
He also said that although the rights of Malays were protected in the Constitution, other races also had their rights.
As shown from results of the recent general election, Dr Lim believed that the people wanted a multi-racial party that treated all races fairly.
He warned that parties like Umno, MCA and MIC would have to dissolve if they failed to adopt a multi-racial approach.
On Gerakan, Dr Lim said that although it was a multi-racial party, it still lost in the recent general election.
He blamed the outcome on Barisan sending Gerakan candidates to contest in non-Malay majority areas.
“Why are the non-Malays angry with Barisan? It is because they see that Umno has become proud. Some are also unhappy with the racist remarks of certain Umno leaders,” he said.
> Sin Chew Daily also quoted Prof C.T. Tan of Universiti Malaya’s Department of Medicine warning of a possible return of the Nipah virus outbreak.
He said that if it happens the virus, which affects pigs, might mutate and spread from human to human.
He also said the disease had nothing to do with cleanliness.
“If pig farming had been modernised during the Nipah virus outbreak previously, there would still be an outbreak,” he said.
> China Press reported that the price of pigs might reach RM700 per 100kg, the highest ever recorded.
Farmers blamed it on the skyrocketing of pig feed prices internationally.
- Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a sub-heading, it denotes a separate news item.
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