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Kit Siang: Najib's joke indicates Umno hand behind flying chairs
Published:  Aug 18, 2017 5:57 PM
Updated: 10:06 AM

Lim Kit Siang has expressed regret that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has yet to condemn the ruckus during Sunday's "Nothing to Hide 2" forum in Shah Alam.

Najib, he said, should have been the first to denounce the incident.

However, the DAP leader pointed out that instead of condemning the fracas, the prime minister chose to joke about it.

“It is even more regrettable that Najib made a joke of it, referring to 'flying chairs' during his visit to PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim's stronghold of Permatang Pauh.

“Isn't this the strongest indication of high-level Umno hand in the thuggish ruckus and riot at the forum in Shah Alam, where there were rowdy and 'samseng' behaviour...?

“The rowdy and thuggish ruckus and the disrespect shown to former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is most regrettable but the failure of the prime minister up to now to condemn such rowdy and thuggish behaviour is doubly regrettable,” he added in a statement this evening...

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