Saturday 28 June 2014

DAP URGED GERAKAN AND MCA MUST REJECT JAMIL STATEMENT


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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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