He says in a blog post that he raised this with former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad when both were attending a Pakatan Harapan ceramah in Shah Alam earlier.
Lim, the MP for Gelang Patah, says he told Dr Mahathir that if Najib were to do this, he would be taking a leaf from what the PH chairman had done when he was prime minister.
Dr Mahathir presented the 2000 Budget on Oct 28, 1999, and in the midst of parliamentary debate on the new budget, he dissolved Parliament on Nov 10. The General Election was held on Nov 29.
The DAP stalwart says in his blog post that the speech by Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi at the Umno Hari Raya open house that the next general election would not take place in the next three months dovetailed into the possibility that the 14th General Election could be held after the presentation of the 2018 Budget in Parliament on Oct. 27.
One indication that the 14th General Election could be held this year rather than next is the announcement by the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Razali Ibrahim, that good news awaits the Felda community, Lim says.
According to Razali, Najib is expected to announce measures to be taken by the government to help reduce the financial burden of Felda settlers, at the 2017 Felda Settler’s celebration this Sunday.
In the same blog post, Lim took issue with the statement by Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak that the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) national project was Najib’s “gift” to the people of Malaysia.
“This is of course a very cock-eyed argument, for the money did not come from Najib’s own pocket but from funds from the Treasury.
“On the basis of Salleh’s logic, the iconic Twin Towers are a “gift” from Mahathir to the people of Malaysia – and if so, how can Salleh be leading a pack of propaganda hounds to keep barking at Mahathir?
“Malaysians do not need any gift from Najib, but only good governance and accountability, especially with regard to the international multibillion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal which has plunged Malaysia into the infamy of a global kleptocracy.’