Press Statement By DAP Secretary-General And MP For Bagan Lim Guan Eng In Kuala Lumpur On 15.10.2013
Anthony Loke And Gobind Singh Deo Will Respectively Take Disciplinary Action Against Party Members “Wearing Rocket Badges But Have BN Hearts” Who Try To Destroy And Sabotage DAP As Well As Take Legal Action Against BN-Controlled Media Who Persist In Defaming DAP With Lies.
DAP National Organising Secretary Sdr Anthony Loke and DAP Legal Bureau head Sdr Gobind Singh Deo have been respectively directed to investigate and take disciplinary action against party members “wearing Rocket badges but have BN hearts” who try to destroy and sabotage DAP as well as take legal action against BN-controlled media who persist in defaming DAP with lies.
The MP for Seremban and State Assemblyman for Chenaah Sdr Anthony Loke will then be requested to submit a formal complaint, if there is a basis for futher action, to the party’s Disciplinary Committee headed by DAP Deputy Chair and MP for Cheras Sdr Tan Kok Wai. At the same time Sdr Gobind will study the statements published by the BN-controlled media to file defamation suits immediately to protect the party from being subjected to further attacks that may give opportunities for any harsh or oppressive action by the Registrar of Societies(ROS).
DAP had created history by being the first political party in Malaysia to appoint an international accounting firm to monitor the entire re-election process from the issuance of notices to delegates to the counting process. This party re-election on 29 September 2013 was forced upon the DAP by the ROS who had refused to give any reason for doing so.
The party leadership was forced to accept this directive and conduct re-elections to avoid further action by the ROS, including de-registration of the DAP. However those DAP members aligned to the ROS who had asked the party to conduct re-elections then suddenly changed their position by trying to stop the re-elections by filing a court injunction. In a decision on 27 September 2013, the Kuala Lumpur High Court threw out the application by a party member aligned with ROS, and allowed DAP to proceed with the re-elections to elect 20 Central Executive(CEC) members.
The party re-elections was successfully conducted on 29 September 2013 and the same team of 20 CEC members was voted in similar to the one at the last Party Congress on 15 December 2012. In other words the DAP party re-elections and the CEC is both lawful and legitimate because it has been validated both by the courts but most importantly democratically elected by the party delegates.
However despite the party re-elections being both lawful and legitimate, the party continues to be accused of cheating. Even UMNO’s party elections are not monitored and verified by an international accounting firm like the DAP.
DAP has to take firm action and protect the party from these lies of cheating to repel BN’s and its media New Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia’s shameless tactic of “turning a lie into the truth by repeating a lie 10,000 times”. The public has lost count of the number of times that both Utusan Malaysia and New Straits Times have apologised to PR leaders.
These lies were even turned into a booklet by one Father Augustus Chen which Utusan Malaysia even claimed was a close friend of DAP leader Lim Kit Siang. Clearly Father Augustus Chen does not exist and is a fiction created by those anti-DAP elements. Lim Kit Siang had filed a defamation suit against Utusan Malaysia.
The time has come for the party’s 150,000 members to move boldly forward to realise the Malaysian Dream through DAP’s battle-cry of UBAH to replace BN at the next general elections, with genuinely loyal party members who wear both Rocket badges and have DAP hearts.
LIM GUAN ENG
— Chinese version —
民主行动党秘书长兼峇眼区国会议员林冠英于2013年10月15日在吉隆坡发表声明：
陆兆福和哥宾星将代表行动党对那些发表“穿着行动党的党徽，心却朝向国阵”言论，试图破坏和摧毁行动党的党员采取纪律行动，同时也采取法律行动对付坚持以谎言诋毁行动党的国阵控制媒体。
行动党全国组织秘书陆兆福和行动党法律局主任哥宾星已受委展开调查，对那些发表“穿着行动党的党徽，心却朝向国阵”言论，试图破坏和摧毁行动党的党员采取纪律行动，同时也采取法律行动对付那些坚持以谎言诋毁行动党的国阵控制媒体。
陆兆福也是芙蓉国会议员兼真纳州议员，他将向行动党署理主席兼焦赖区国会议员陈国伟为首的纪律委员会正式提交投诉，以要求进一步的调查和行动。同时哥宾星也会研究由国阵控制媒体所发表的报导，即刻进行诽谤诉讼以保护党，避免受到社团注册局的任何恶意攻击。
行动党创下历史，成为马来西亚首个委任国际会计稽查公司负责监督中央委员会重选的整个选举的政党，包括发出通知书给中委。社团注册局拒绝给予行动党任何理由为何行动党必须在今年9月29日进行中央委员会重选。
党领袖被迫接受重选以避免社团注册局进一步对付行动党，免让社团注册有机可乘，进一步撤销行动党的注册。但是那些曾质疑社团注册局要求行动党中央委员会重选的党员，却突然改变立场，试图通过法庭阻止重选，吉隆坡高庭于今年9月27日驳回党员申请阻止行动党重选中委的禁令，允许行动党中央重选出20名中委。
重选于9月29日顺利进行，选出与去年12月15日大会同样的中央阵容。换句话说，行动党重选和中委都是正当合法，除了经过法庭证实，更重要的是民主选举下选出的党代表。
行动党重选正当合法，还是被说成欺骗，即使巫统党选并没有向行动党一样委托国际会计稽查公司来监督党选过程。
面对国阵媒体《新海峡时报》和《马来西亚前锋报》无耻手段，试图通过重复1万次的谎言来以假乱真，行动党必须采取坚定行动来保护党，民众甚至无从计算这两家报章因报导谎言而向民联领袖道歉的次数。
这些谎言被编排成书，《马来西亚前锋报》甚至声称作者“陈奥吉斯特牧师”是行动党领袖林吉祥的亲密友人，明显的“陈奥吉斯特牧师”是一个不存在的人物，是那些反行动党者的虚构，林吉祥已起诉《马来西亚前锋报》诽谤。
行动党15万名党员是时候大胆向前迈进，他们穿着火箭党徽和火箭的心，通过行动党捍卫改变的战争，在下届大选取代国阵，以实现马来西亚国民的梦想。
林冠英