Bersatu President Muhyiddin Yassin is now attacking the DAP because I did not support him to become Prime Minister when he approached me in 2016 before the formation of Bersatu as DAP was committed to working for Anwar Ibrahim as Prime Minister.

I vividly remember the cloak-and-dagger condition under which Muhyiddin met me with the proposal, but I was unable to say “yes” as the DAP was committed to Anwar Ibrahim as the Prime Minister.

Muhyiddin cannot deny the meeting as there were witnesses to the secret meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

It is most unfortunate that Muhyiddin has now decided to attack the DAP for the DAP had given him all support as Home Minister during the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government, and the only thing we had not done was for him to be the Prime Minister.

On looking back, it is rather “fishy” for the police to detain DAP leaders, including a State executive councillor and a State Assemblyman, for alleged links and support of the Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers.

At that time, we thought that was a pure police operation, and that the police was wrong to link the DAP leaders with the Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers.

On looking back now, the detention of the DAP leaders for alleged links to Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers was not a pure police operation, but more a political operation of Muhyiddin and his allies which led to the Sheraton Move political conspiracy which toppled the Pakatan Harapan government in 22 months.

(Speech by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang at the Pakatan Harapan 15GE ceramah in Libaran constituency in support of PH candidate Dr. Peter Jr Naintin (UPKO) off Sandakan on Sunday 13th November 2022 at 3 pm)