Apologise for twisting facts, Karpal tells Raja Ahmad
Reiterating that he owes no one an apology, the DAP chairman wants the Islamic party’s youth vice chief to publicly apologise for lying about his views on race-based parties
Athi Shankar, FMT
DAP national chairman Karpal Singh insisted that he would not apologise for his statement on Nov 5 where he called for the deregistration of race-based political parties in the country.
Instead, the senior parliamentarian called on PAS national youth vice-chief Raja Ahmad Iskandar Raja Yaacob to publicly apologise for misrepresenting facts of his statement.
“Raja Ahmad has clearly misled the public and he is guilty, I repeat, of perpetrating an unadulterated lie for which he owes the public an apology.
“The demand by some misguided and ignorant leaders in PAS in giving me an ultimatum to apologise to PAS within five days is an absolutely outlandish and an unwarranted demand.
“Needless to say, the question of apologising to anyone does not arise. There will be no apology. I will not entertain any idle demands by misguided PAS leaders,” said Karpal, the Bukit Gelugor MP.
He said he stood by his statement made during a press conference in Penang in relation to the need for race-based political parties and organisations to be deregistered.
He reiterated that a multiracial country like Malaysia should not have race-based political parties for such parties would only further divide the people.
Incomplete recording of speech
Since unity is strength, Karpal said race-based political parties do not strive towards the significance and import of that adage.
“I repeat the only sensible approach to ensuring a truly united Malaysian nation was to outlaw race-based political parties,” said Karpal.
