After 56 years, Kit Siang quits politics

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Farewell to an Indomitable

From Terence Netto

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang’s decision to bring down the curtain on his 56-year career in politics is expected to prevent the listing ship of his party from ploughing into reefs.

His retirement savors of an anticlimax because it comes just four years after the marathon man of Malaysian politics had led his party to its highest altitude: participation in the federal government.

Herein lies a shred of cruel irony.

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