Najib: Citizens’ Declaration is all about Dr Mahathir’s personal agenda

(The Star) – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has pooh-poohed Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s “Citizens’ Declaration”, labelling it a personal agenda.

Najib said the Dr M-led movement lacked representation from east Malaysia, and was not a “people’s” declaration in the true sense of the word.

“There is a group led by a person, who the Sarawak Chief Minister referred to earlier, who was a leader for 22 years. He held an event to announce a people’s declaration, but in truth, it is not a people’s declaration.

“Don’t make a people’s declaration to confuse the people. Don’t make a personal agenda a people’s agenda. It is not about the people, it is about your personal agenda.”

“That declaration was neither determined, written nor agreed upon by the rakyat of Malaysia. A large portion of Sarawakians, for instance, do not agree with what has happened,” Najib said at the launch of the ’Inclusive Malaysia, A Digital Nation’ (Minda) at the Kuching Waterfront on Saturday morning.

Najib said his own policies, such as building the Pan Borneo Highway in east Malaysia, was the real “rakyat’s agenda”.

He said states left behind in development must be brought forward.