Kejatuhan Kerajaan BN di Penang adalah sesuatu yang dirancang oleh GERAKAN....
Mereka tahu bahawa UMNO punya kerusi yang lebih dan GERAKAN tidak akan mampu mempertahankan kuasa mereka untuk tahun2 akan datang. GERAKAN bukan rakan MCA. GERAKAN adalah rakan DAP dan PAP di Singapura.
Di zaman Tun Razak, Apabila GERAKAN menang di penang, GERAKAN tidak mahu BN dan tetap mahu menjadi pembangkang. Tun Razak kata Tiada BN Tiada Free Port untuk Penang. Lim Chong Eu dengan bongkak berkata Penang boleh hidup tanpa Free Port.
6 Bulan kemudian, Lim Chong Eu memohon bantuan Tun Razak untuk status Free Port bagi Penang. Tun Razak bertanya : saya yang meminta perolongan dari kamu atau kamu yang perlukan bantuan dari saya? Lim Chong Eu menjawab, saya (Kerajaan Penang) yang memohon bantuan dari Tun Razak (Kerajaan Persekutuan).
Tun Razak berkata : Balik ke Penang dan istiharkan GERAKAN bersama BN. Lim Chong Eu balik dan mengistiharkan GERAKAN sudah bersama BN. Di ikuti pengumuman Tun Razak bahawa Penang mendapat kembali status Free Portnya.
KESIMPULANNYA : PERJUANGAN GERAKAN HANYA UNTUK KEPENTINGAN KAUM CINA. KELUAR MASUK BN BUKAN MENJADI HAL KEPADA MEREKA. MEREKA LEBIH PERKAUMAN DARI SEGALA YANG BERNAMA PERKAUMAN.
MEREKA SEDANG MENCARI JALAN DAN HELAH UNTUK KELUAR DARI BN. DIBERITAKAN BAHAWA TSU KOON TELAH PUN MENGADAKAN PERJUMPAAN DENGAN ANWAR IBRAHIM.
Jalan yang terbaik adalah : Keluarkan segera GERAKAN dari BN. Dua parti bagi satu kaum dalam BN lebih membawa kesulitan dari kebaikkan. Sebaliknya perkukuhkan MCA.... Kerajaan BN amat tahu dan faham bagaimana untuk MEMPERKUKUHKAN MCA itu. Tak perlu saya sebutkan caranya....
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Yang Amat Berbahagia Tun Dr. Lim Chong Eu
Tun Dato' Seri Dr. Lim Chong Eu (traditional Chinese: 林蒼祐; simplified Chinese: 林苍祐) is a Malaysian politician who served as the second Chief Minister of Penang for a record 21 years. He was also the founding president of Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia, a member of the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional.
Dr Lim was born in 1919 in Penang. He attended school at the Penang Free School, where he was the King's Scholar in 1937. He later obtained a degree in medical and surgery from the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, in 1944.
In 1951, he was appointed to the Penang Local Council and in 1955, he was appointed a member of the Federal Legislature.
In the March 1958 party elections, he challenged Tun Tan Cheng Lock and won the presidency with a majority of 22 votes.
After the victory, he called an extraordinary general meeting to amend the Constitution consolidate the power of the Central Committee. This was met with strong resistance by Tun Tan Siew Sin and his supporters.
Although the proposal was passed with a single-vote majority, the move left the Party splited. At the same time, the MCA under Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu also had severe political differences with the then Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.
The crisis worsened especially on the eve of the 1959 general elections when Tun Dr Lim demanded 40 parliamentary seats and also wanted to make Chinese an official language.
The Tunku increased the seats allocated to MCA from 28 to 31 but this was rejected and their relationship worsened.
During the one-year period when the MCA was under Tun Dr Lim, the party was under tremendous pressure from within and outside. In December 1960, Tun Dr Lim left the MCA and in 1962, he formed the United Democratic Party. Dr Cheah Toon Lock became the Acting President with the resignation of Tun Dr Lim.
He was one of the founder members of the Opposition Party Gerakan before the 1969 General Election. The formation of Gerakan has thrown the Chinese into a dilemma, weakened their political strength and above all, eroded the political representation of the MCA as the only party for the Chinese community. Gerakan joined the ruling Barisan Nasional after winning the Penang State Government in 1969.
Dr Lim served as Chief Minister of Penang from 1969 to 1990. In the Malaysian General Elections of October 1990, a crisis occurred as the incumbent Chief Minister Lim Chong Eu lost his state seat and Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan) had less seats than UMNO in the Penang State Assembly. A crisis was averted when Tun Dr Lim Keng Yaik, the then president of Gerakan, was able to convince the then Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad to allow a Chinese to continue being the Chief Minister.
Dr Lim has since retired from politics and concentrates on business. He is currently the chairman and advisor for several large corporations. In 2007, Dr Lim was named founding chancellor of Wawasan Open University.
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Gerakan was relatively successful in the 1969 general election, where it campaigned on a platform of social justice and the reduction or elimination of Bumiputra privileges outlined by Article 153 of the Constitution.
Gerakan held a victory rally in the capital of Kuala Lumpur to celebrate. However, it deviated from its planned route into Malay areas of the city, where party members jeered at the Malays. Although an apology was issued the following day, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a major component of the ruling Alliance coalition government, held a retaliatory rally. This rally soon degenerated into outright rioting with at least 180 people killed during the subsequent riots (although other estimates put it substantially higher). As a result, a state of emergency was declared, and Parliament was suspended; it did not reconvene until 1971.