10-08-2021, 08:59 AM
DAP and a multiracial Malaysia – a response to Lim Teck Ghee
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From M Ali
I am gratified that in Part 2, Lim Teck Ghee, does acknowledge the presence of the other political parties and leaders in post-Merdeka politics in Peninsular Malaysia such as the late Dr Tan Chee Koon.
The political parties that really believed in a multiracial Malaysia, were parties such as Pekemas. There were also others such as Parti Rakyat Malaysia and the Labour Party that formed the Socialist Front in the 1960s.
In fact, the late V David, who stood for the Labour Party, narrowly lost to CV Devan Nair, the founder of DAP, in Bangsar, by about 500 votes, in the 1964 Malaysian general elections.
David was later to become the DAP MP for Damansara and Puchong.
They were smaller and did not make much headway in the mainstream and DAP, in its own selfish interest, neither assisted these parties nor formed electoral alliances with them for fear of being overshadowed by these parties, at that stage.
I am gratified that in Part 2, Lim Teck Ghee, does acknowledge the presence of the other political parties and leaders in post-Merdeka politics in Peninsular Malaysia such as the late Dr Tan Chee Koon.
The political parties that really believed in a multiracial Malaysia, were parties such as Pekemas. There were also others such as Parti Rakyat Malaysia and the Labour Party that formed the Socialist Front in the 1960s.
In fact, the late V David, who stood for the Labour Party, narrowly lost to CV Devan Nair, the founder of DAP, in Bangsar, by about 500 votes, in the 1964 Malaysian general elections.
David was later to become the DAP MP for Damansara and Puchong.
They were smaller and did not make much headway in the mainstream and DAP, in its own selfish interest, neither assisted these parties nor formed electoral alliances with them for fear of being overshadowed by these parties, at that stage.
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