STATE OF SARAWAK Tunku Tells Chief Minister To Go
(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) KUALA LUMPUR, June 14. The Malaysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, today called on the Chief Minister of the State of Sarawak, Dato Kalong Ningkan, to resign “peacefully and constitutionally.”
Talking to reporters after a meeting of the Malaysian Cabinet, the Tunku said the Cabinet had come to the conclusion that Dato Ningkan had not discharged his duties to the credit of the ruling Alliance Party.
The Tunku said he had also received a letter from the majority of members of Sarawak’s Council Negri (State Assembly) demanding Dato Ningkan’s immediate resignation.
“If Ningkan resigns peacefully and constitutionally, then there will be no need for me to relate all the charges against him,” he said.
A split in the Sarawak Alliance Party came to a head with Dato Ningkan’s dismissal of the State Minister for Communications and Works, Inche Abdul Taib Mahmud, two days ago. >
Dato Ningkan said in a state-ment announcing the dismissal of Inche Taib that there was a crisis in the Alliance Party and that a rebel group within the party had been plotting to topple the government Inche Taib, who arrived in Kuala Lumpur yesterday from Kuching, accompanied by the Federal Minister for Sarawak Affairs, Tan Sri Temengong Jugah, told reporters that he was being made “a scapegoat” to cover up Dato Ningkan’s inability to unite the Alliance Party leaders. Others Resign Three Sarawak Ministers also submitted their resignations from the State Assembly yesterday. The Tunku said that Sarawak's Governor, Tun Haji Openg, would call on Dato Ningkan and tell him that under the constitution he should resign as “he has not got the confidence of the majority.” There was no room for compromise, he added. New Minister He said the Sarawak State councillors had been asked to nominate a new Chief Minister. Dato Stephen Kalong Ningkan, the 45-year-old Chief Minister of Sarawak, has held office since 1963. He was responsible for the formation of the Sarawak United Front in 1962 and became secretary-general of the Alliance Party which replaced the front He was deputy leader of the Malaysian goodwill mission to Africa in 1964.
Freedom March.—A column of Negro “freedom marchers” penetrated deep into white racist Ku Klux Klan territory today as they continued their trek to Jackson, Mississippi. No incidents were reported.— Enid (Mississippi), June 14.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31086, 15 June 1966, Page 17
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