DAP leader Lim Kit Siang has urged Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to clarify if he also wants the police and the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) to do nothing about extremists in the country, after blogging that these groups can be ignored.

In a series of letters expressing his frustration with a lack of follow-up action despite a whole month after mooting the national reconciliation plan (NRP), Lim today challenged PM Najib to clearly state his stand.

 

"Najib must be the first prime minister in the world to proffer the advice to all and sundry - including to law enforcement agencies like the police and the Attorney-General’s chambers -  to ignore flagrant breaches of the law by instigators and extremists...

"If this is not Najib’s intention, he should immediately clarify his blog post and declare that he, as prime minister, wants all law enforcement agencies to uphold the law," Lim, who is also Gelang Patah MP, said in a press statement today.

Calling the NRP a "mystery", Lim questioned why Najib only talks but does nothing concrete about this plan, which can ease some of the recent tensions raised by groups fanning racial and religious issues.

"It would appear that nobody else in the cabinet and government - apart from Najib - knows anything about the NRP.

'NRP like a strip-tease show'

"Why is Najib treating the NRP like a strip-tease show, unpeeling one piece of clothing after another, completely unwilling to make full public disclosure of the proposed NRP?" Lim asked.

The NRP was first announced after a cabinet meeting on Jan 29 and then only mentioned again once more almost a month later when Najib blogged on Feb 25, urging the media not to give any spotlight to, nor condemn, extremists groups.

Lim ( left ) noted that he was a fan of the NRP, having written three open letters in January urging Najib to also accept a similar olive branch offered by the Pakatan Rakyat leadership. This was for the sake of stamping out any nefarious and treacherous plot to spark racial or religious riots in the country.

He added that to date, Pakatan’s leadership nor BN’s supreme council had been contacted to expedite the NRP as promised.

"As a result of this government drift and inaction on important issues in the country, there has been an unprecedented spate of incidents to further raise racial and religious tensions," Lim said.

He recounted that Seputeh MP Teresa Kok has received many threats from these groups, seemingly linked to her ‘Onederful Malaysia 2014' video uploaded on YouTube a month ago.

Najib blogged about reconciliation this week, but appears to rally more for the public's goodwill and media self-censorship to ignore extremists, rather than proposing any concrete government steps towards this desired national objective.