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Monday, April 5, 2010

Chua backs youth leader in Perkasa tiff

KUALA LUMPUR, April 4 — Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has come out in defence of an MCA Youth leader’s criticism of Perkasa and refused to be pressured into sacking the latter.

The party president pointed out to The Malaysian Insider this afternoon that, if anything, the MCA had its own method of dealing with disciplinary problems involving its members and would follow the due process when it was deemed fit.

He also defended Loh Chew June, the Youth wing’s deputy secretary-general, and said that “on the surface”, the leader had not committed any wrong.

“You cannot simply call on a party to sack its member. We, in MCA, have our own disciplinary committee to investigate these matters,” he said.

Dr Chua added that Loh had a right to speak his mind on whatever topic, as long as he did not breach the party’s code of conduct.

“However, on the surface, I do not think he has breached any code of conduct,” he pointed out.

Loh, along with Penang Gerakan chief Datuk Dr Teng Hock Nan, has been at loggerheads with Malay rights group Perkasa when the duo criticised the organisation, calling it “racist”.

Perkasa Youth chief Arman Azha Abu Hanifah took offence to the criticism and called on both Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders to apologise within 48-hours from Friday or he would pressure Gerakan and MCA leaders to sack them.

Arman’s demand has fallen on deaf ears, however, with both Loh and Teng refusing to succumb to the threat, and today continued to criticise Perkasa, claiming it was anti-1 Malaysia.

Loh also went further to tell Perkasa to apologise to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, for failing to adhere to the premier’s ideals of 1 Malaysia.

Taking note of this, Arman told The Malaysian Insider today that he would hold another press conference tomorrow and proceed with his plan to “exert pressure” on MCA and Gerakan to expel the two party leaders.

Meanwhile, Dr Chua said the MCA would soon hold a press conference and issue its views on Perkasa, whose formation has caused a ripple in the political scene in Malaysia.

Seen by some to be the conscience of Umno, with its main struggle centred on protecting the rights of Malays, Perkasa has also been deemed to be the thorn in Najib’s increasingly liberal administration.

The verbal sparring between Loh, Teng and Perkasa gave indications that Najib would likely face strong opposition from the non-Malay parties in the BN if he should side with the Malay rights group entirely.

“We will give our statement soon on what we feel about Perkasa. For now, as far as the MCA is concerned, any party member can speak their mind as long as, like I said, they stick to the party rules,” said Dr Chua, before declining to say if the MCA was agreeable to Perkasa’s ideologies.


8 comments:

malayamuda said...

moving the right direction i see Mr President.........good for MCA

alvin said...

Datuk Seri

MCA should have more of such people who can defend against racists.

Not to kow-tow as we are all Malaysians; not Chinese, Malays, Indians.

What type of leadership BN has witht he top two firmly saying the affirmative as Malays first.

Malaysia is doomed to go down the drains with such leaders. MCA should not associate itelf with such bigotry leaders.

Stand up and be counted as Malaysians; not otherwise. If this fails, chuck the 1Malaysia slogan & concept down the Klang River.

mdz5046 said...

Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek resigned from all posts, he has shown a high level of integrity as a politician. Nowadays it is hard to find politicians with such integrity even among Muslims politician. Many politicians even Muslims are not willing to admit

http://mthago.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/mca-its-problem/

Pearls said...

So far so good...keep it up.

nanyang said...

why dato tengbook is not appointed as cc?

CJ Loh阿俊 said...

TQ Mr President. With your backing, i will fight on !

nanyang said...

马华接下来要做的事情:
1)对内
备战民联将会对他的CD的攻击,大选备战,候选人的培训

党员的干训

栽培有潜能的新人

让更多的新人担任些职位,在州或中央

制度化的遴选国洲议员候选人

党内的上情下达,下情上达的有效管道

党内的民主,言论的空间

2)对外
对巫统的无理取闹要更加的坚定及敢怒敢言

种族课题要更快更准的回应

制度化的对华社的问题来解决。而不是像现在的头痛医头,脚痛医脚

很多事情要做的比民联更加的好而不是一喂的骂民联。我们已经不能用骂民联来让人民醒觉的。这要用些策略。

Kapitan Ho said...

Dato' stay strong and please give no tolerance to the those Racist bushman.

thousands thanks

http://kapitanho.blogspot.com/

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