As the former minister in the Pakatan Harapan Cabinet handling the controversial Lynas project, it is surprising to see DAP’s Yeo Bee Yin nonchalantly visiting Bentong, Pahang to give speeches about believing in change and asking voters to give them another chance.
During our visits to Bentong, we have often heard criticisms from the grassroots that DAP representatives were incompetent or "invisible". Furthermore, when MCA served the people of Bentong and helped in disaster relief, we have never caught even a glimpse of DAP leaders, except when an election loomed.
During the run-up to the 14th General Election, the DAP Bentong candidate made a series of sweet yet questionable promises, such as: abolishing the Karak Highway Toll, burning down Lynas, reducing petrol prices, and abolishing PTPTN repayment, etc. What happened to these promises in PH’s 22-month-long administration?
Prior to the election, DAP strongly protested the Lynas rare earth processing plant, using it as leverage to hold street protests and attacked the government. DAP’s Wong Tack even vowed to personally set the Lynas plant ablaze if it was not shut down after they won. In a plot twist, not only did Wong Tack not commit arson, but his colleague Yeo Bee Yin as the Minister of Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change, extended Lynas’ operating license and even approved the additional construction of a permanent disposal facility.
Thus, DAP does not have a good track record of fulfilling its promises, whether in the opposition or in the government, and the people of Bentong are aware of this as a fact now. We hope that the people of Bentong will cast their votes wisely in the next General Election, for a party which stands by its words.
Wong Siew Mun
MCA spokesperson
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