KUCHING: Democratic Action Party Socialist Youth (Dapsy) has displayed the wrong example to youth through their arrogant and naïve act of pasting Chinese characters on road signs in the city centre.
Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) president Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing said Dapsy’s act highlights the roguish and thuggish nature that DAP members were known for.
“It is this kind of excessive approach by Dapsy that has increased the hostility of the other ethnic groups against the Chinese. The culprit is none other than the anarchic highhandedness of DAP,” he said in a statement on Sunday.
Tiong was commenting on the action taken by Dapsy members in pasting Chinese characters on road signs at Jalan Main Bazaar, Wayang Street and Jalan Green Hill here last Thursday.
“Speaking as a Malaysian Chinese, I also hope for Chinese characters to be on road signs, but we ought to use civilised methods, the rule of law and struggle justly for the rights and interests of all ethnic groups,” he said.
He said Dapsy’s action had displayed the wrong example to young people and their arrogant and naive decision had only highlighted the thuggish nature of DAP.
“It is the DAP’s abuse of the freedom of speech and behaviour that has caused the relationship between the different ethnic groups to regress from the harmony of the past to the situation we have today.”
Tiong, who is the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to People’s Republic of China, said Chong (Chieng Jen), as a lawyer, should have known better, adding that DAP owed all races a good explanation for what they had done.
“If this type of situation is not resolved amicably, it will lead to more friction with the other races and racial disharmony will return to take hold,” he warned.
He said he had always insisted that all ethnic groups should have the right to express their wishes but it must be done in a civilised and legal manner.
“Our responsibility as elected representatives is to assist in getting the people’s demands addressed properly, not to fan social disorder and participate in upsetting social harmony and plunge our lives into chaos,” said Tiong.
