Political ‘backstabbing’ drove me out of DAP: Lee Lam Thye biography

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Lam Thye knew Parliament would be dissolved, went ‘incommunicado’ in 1990: Kit Siang

KUALA LUMPUR – DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang has shot back again at former colleague Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye’s claim of “backstabbing” by the party in 1990 by accusing Lee of doing a disappearing act just before the general election that year.

The 81-year-old Iskandar Puteri MP expressed regret that Lee had held on to his claim that he was controversially told not to contest in the Bukit Bintang parliamentary constituency that year.

In a recently launched biography, Lee, who had then been a successful elected rep there for four terms, was quoted as saying that the plan to remove him from the constituency led him to quit politics.

Lee, now 75, has been a social activist ever since.

“It is regrettable that Lam Thye has maintained his lie that I had asked him to contest elsewhere apart from Bukit Bintang, when this was not the case,” said Lim, now 81, who was DAP’s secretary-general in 1990.

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