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The MCA and Gerakan
ministers must reject Jamil Khir's parliamentary statement in their first
Cabinet meeting to prove they do not play second fiddle to Umno, says DAP.
KUALA LUMPUR: Now that MCA and Gerakan are in the Cabinet, the parties
must prove that they play equal roles in Barisan Nasional by rejecting Minister
in the Prime Minister’s Department Jamil Khir Baharom’s parliamentary statement
that “Malaysia is not a secular state,” DAP national adviser Lim Kit Siang said
today.
Lim was commenting on MCA president Liow Tiong Lai and Gerakan chief Mah
Siew Keong’s statements that their parties shared equal roles in the Barisan
Nasional framework which followed a system of consensus.
Liow and Mah had said MCA and Gerakan would not play second fiddle to
Umno in the Cabinet.
Lim said Liow and Mah had claimed that Jamil Khir’s statement was merely
the minister’s personal view.
“Both Liow and Mah should know that there is no such thing as a personal
view when a minister speaks in Parliament.
“Whatever the minister says in Parliament is in an official capacity on
behalf of the Cabinet,” he said in a press statement today.
He added that Liow and Mah had claimed that their parties had never
agreed to deviate from the decades-old consensus, assurance and commitment in
the constitution that Malaysia was a secular state with Islam as the official
religion.
“The restoration of the Barisan Nasional consensus that Malaysia is a
secular state with Islam as the official religion must be the first task of the
first Cabinet meeting attended by both Liow and Mah.
“Will Liow and Mah be able to restore this BN consensus, and get the
Cabinet to repudiate Jamil Khir’s statement?” asked Lim.
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