Party man: PBDS is multi-racial in essence but Dayak in substance

comments     Tony Thien     Published     Updated

Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) vice-president Sng Chee Hua's statement today insinuating that party president Leo Moggie is a 'racist' by advocating that the two top party posts should only be held by Dayaks has provoked immediate reaction within party circles.

Why Sng had decided to come out with a public statement on the issue so long after Moggie's comments made after the PBDS supreme council meeting last month has also led to much speculation.

In Sng's first public reaction to Moggie's comments on the issue, he also said that Moggie's remarks could be interpreted to mean that only the "Dayaks can help the Dayaks and that a Chinese cannot help his fellow countrymen from another race."

He suggested that if this was indeed Moggie's actual comments then he (Moggie) "had run foul of the Barisan Nasional's concept of promoting multi-racialism and the creation of Bangsa Malaysia (Malaysian race)."

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