DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang said that the Royal Malaysian Police, its Special Branch and the Home Ministry would have been total failures if allegations that he and his party are puppets controlled by Singaporean strings are true.

He argued that our more than capable Special Branch would have ferreted it out if that was so.

"I think it is most unfair, and a gross defamation, to regard the Special Branch, the police and the Home Ministry in the past five decades as total failures in not knowing in the past 50 years that DAP and I were just “puppets” of Singapore

"In fact, the Special Branch in Malaysia is one of the best in the world - able to ferret out secrets and defeat the nation’s enemies, and is probably the only Special Branch in the world to win the battle for the hearts and minds of the people against the communists," he said during a speech in Sepang last night.