Wednesday 16 October 2013

DAP’s move could be attempt to sow hatred — Abdul Karim

October 16, 2013

SIBU: The move by DAP to reach out to the rural populace using newsletter may be an attempt to sow the seeds of discord among the people and stir hatred against the government in BN strongholds.

PBB supreme council member Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah yesterday believed this could be so as the urban-based party had never been seen over the years to foster harmony, but more towards disunity and hatred.

Abdul Karim, who is Assistant Minister of Youth Development and Asajaya assemblyman, was reacting to the news report that Sarawak DAP had come up with a newsletter in Bahasa Malaysia to disseminate political and social-related information to rural folk.

Its chairman Chong Chieng Jen reportedly said the effort was part of their ‘Impian Sarawak’ and ‘DAP Go Rural’ campaigns.

“I am unsure of whether the newsletter is to disseminate political and social information or disseminate hatred and disunity among the races.

“I would tend to believe that DAP’s intention is to create hatred among the races and the government … my reason being I have not seen DAP through the years making effort to foster harmony but more toward fostering disunity and hatred,” Abdul Karim said.

Meanwhile, SPDP deputy secretary-general Paul Igai expressed confidence that the rural populace were matured enough to see through the opposition’s plan.
 
“They will be able to discern what is real and what are plain lies, lies and lies.”

Igai said people would be the judge of DAP’s claims to be able to do ‘miracles’.

“Let the people judge what they have to say … compare with what we have been painstakingly doing all this while and persevere to do so in improving the socio-economic development of rural folk,” he said.

Meanwhile, Chong claimed that they had printed 20,000 copies of the inaugural edition to be distributed free of charge to the public.

He was further quoted to have said that the newsletter would be a monthly publication due to financial constraint.
  

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