PENANG, Malaysia: Police today questioned DAP leader Lim Kit Siang for alleged defamation and sedition in his Penanti by-election ceramahs where he blamed the Perak crisis on Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
Kit Siang said Chief Inspector Pang Meng Tak, in charge of a ceramah last Sunday, had lodged the report over his remarks at the gathering that the Prime Minister was responsible for the Perak constitutional crisis.
Asked what he told the police officer, Kit Siang replied: "Well, I just said, meet in court."
Kit Siang added that it is "virtually a foregone conclusion" that action would be taken against him as the police report was lodged by the police themselves.
The veteran politician, who appeared in good spirits despite the police questioning, could not resist comparing the situation with the era of Najib's father's Tun Abdul Razak, who was also Malaysia's second prime minister.
"When his father was a prime minister, he never touched me for sedition, but he is doing what his father has never done," he quipped.
He added Najib’s “1 Malaysia. People First. Performance Now” slogan has been shredded and discredited with the Perak political crisis, abuse of police power in curbing political dissent, inequal distribution of scholarships and the delayed release of the audit on the Port Klang Free Zone.
Courtesy: The Malaysian Insider
Kit Siang said Chief Inspector Pang Meng Tak, in charge of a ceramah last Sunday, had lodged the report over his remarks at the gathering that the Prime Minister was responsible for the Perak constitutional crisis.
Asked what he told the police officer, Kit Siang replied: "Well, I just said, meet in court."
Kit Siang added that it is "virtually a foregone conclusion" that action would be taken against him as the police report was lodged by the police themselves.
The veteran politician, who appeared in good spirits despite the police questioning, could not resist comparing the situation with the era of Najib's father's Tun Abdul Razak, who was also Malaysia's second prime minister.
"When his father was a prime minister, he never touched me for sedition, but he is doing what his father has never done," he quipped.
He added Najib’s “1 Malaysia. People First. Performance Now” slogan has been shredded and discredited with the Perak political crisis, abuse of police power in curbing political dissent, inequal distribution of scholarships and the delayed release of the audit on the Port Klang Free Zone.
Courtesy: The Malaysian Insider
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