Kit Siang takes responsibility for Tengs defeat

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Ex-DAP Socialist Youth chief Teng Chang Khim's defeat in yesterday's elections of the wing may be partly due to the lack of encouragement form the party's top leadership, said its national chairperson Lim Kit Siang.

Lim conceded today that he has to take "certain responsibility" for Teng, who publicly told him not to seek re-election in 2001, and his failure to retain his position as Youth chief.

Speaking to reporters after opening the party's national congress in Kuala Lumpur, Lim said he had not asked delegates to vote for Teng yesterday like he had done during the 1999 Dapsy election.

"I did not ask them to vote for him this time. But these are the votes of the delegates and Teng must find out the reason and learn from it," said Lim, who spotted a bandaged finger sustained from a recent mugging incident outside his daughter's house in Petaling Jaya.

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