Prime Minister Najib Razak will not be attending the disputed MCA annual general meeting this Sunday. Najib's absence is going to be read as a lost of support for incumbent MCA President Ong Tee Keat.
The presence of UMNO President to launch the annual general assembly of Barisan component parties is the clearest sign of UMNO's superiority over other parties. Previous presidents who did not enjoy the support of UMNO president/prime minister were quickly removed from the party.
Dr Lim Chong Eu was strong enough to defeat Tan Cheng Lock for the MCA presidency but his dispute with UMNO president Tunku Abdul Rahman over seats allocation was quickly manipulated by his party leaders to push him out of MCA.
Sadly, history is going to repeat itself again here. Ong is not expected to be able to launch a strong challenge to defend his post if the delegates want a closer relationship with UMNO. It is customary for parties in the coalition to compete for the attention and goodwill of UMNO.
However, it is unlikely for Ong to follow the footsteps of Dr Lim in forming an opposition party, the United Democratic Party (a backbone for the formation of Parti Gerakan) after a two-year hiatus from politics.
In an equal partnership, there should have been a rotating coalition chairmanship. No other leader from a non-UMNO party has ever led Barisan.
Hence, a leadership change in MCA will not help the party to resolve its own political crisis or to recapture the support of Chinese community.
MCA's main problem is the prevailing ugly elitist and discriminative politics in Malaysia. This brand of elitist politics is merely manipulating and abusing race and religion to benefit their own kind.
MCA's decline is irreversible and imminent if UMNO is allowed to perpetuate its brand of elitist politics unchecked and unchallenged.
UMNO is not going to and cannot leave its "ketuanan Melayu" (Malay supremacy) politics behind. UMNO's survival depends on its ability to convince the Malays that they are the princes of the land and the party's its protector.
Post-Mahathir, its leadership is also trying to mend its rift and rebuild its alliance with the monarch, another useful symbol for Malay supremacy.
Events in the last months suggested that UMNO may have unleashed all possibilities to strengthen its ethnoreligious credentials hoping to shore up its Malay support base. It hopes to unite the Malay under the pretence to protect the Malay special status, its symbol of supremacy - the monarchy, Islam as an exclusive religion and the sacred Malay social status in Malaysia.
However, the more UMNO pushes its Malay-Islam agenda the more doubts it is going to cast on Najib's 1Malaysia agenda. Compared to Vision 2020, Mahathir was smart enough to create a time frame for equality which was way beyond his tenure so that Malaysians of all races remain hopeful as long as we have not touched the finishing line.
1Malaysia to the skeptics is a mere slogan. The cynics see it as a ploy. The pragmatists know that it will not and cannot be achieved. The moment there is equality for all it marks an end for UMNO.
Racial equality and the realisation of a truly Bangsa Malaysia is an end game for UMNO. UMNO becomes irrelevant once it is no longer needed to defend Malay supremacy which is a disguise of its elitist interests. Najib and all UMNO leaders would definitely want UMNO to remain for the next 500 years.
Hence, Perkasa was expedited. Perkasa will say and do whatever UMNO cannot or would not say in order not to lose its 1Malaysia mask.
From Dr Mahathir to Najib, the believers of Vision 2020 and 1Malaysia should know by now that they have been conned.
MCA should wake up from its slumber. It is time for its leadership to sober up. MCA under the leadership of Ong, Chua or Liow is not going to help save the party if it wants to continue to be 'henpecked' by UMNO.
My advice to Ong is to issue a full disclosure on what has happened to the PKFZ investigation. His days as the MCA president may be numbered but the people will remember him as a fallen angel if he can walk his talk on his intention to make those who were responsible for the fiasco be brought to face justice.
My previous articles in The Star supporting his intention to conduct a thorough investigation on PKFZ had led to people speculating that I had joined his team of advisers. I had hoped that it was true because I would have advised him to stand up against those who had colluded to sweep this scandal under the carpet and to demand for an equal partnership in Barisan.
MCA leadership has proven that it is part of the greedy and dangerous elitist politics and not fighting to end it.
What good can it do if it can't contribute to end racism, corruption, mismanagement and power arrogance?
19 comments:
MCA should be doing the clan activities like the chap goh meh etc but not politics.
No racial based and religion based political parties are allowed to rule Malaysia.
mei yu ma hua
hua ren hui gen hou
And....... they "always" say that they back their Premier...!!!
Now the Premier "have got no time for their nonsense"!!
And all these while the rakyat HAVE BEEN telling these goons that they are irrelevent.
Well... now they know!!
Too late, that is..........!
OTK.... you've so much to loose and already "LOST"...
Bring out the truth about PKFZ...
For heaven & our sake....
Enough of arse kissing.....
Stinking worst by the day.....
What the bloody hell are you afraid of??
Yakuza......??
A most interesting analysis and inference. Racial politics will diminish with 1 Malaysia. The backbone and strategic thrust of the original parties of UMNO, MCA, MIC, and the sarawak coalition draws its support along racial lines. As Kee Tuan Chye stated 308 elections has been a turning point for malaysians. We no longer fear racial riots, we no longer vote racial. We have a choice. The malays no longer fear DAP, the non-malays no longer fear PAS nor its islamic ideology. Pak Lah has freed malaysians from the oppresiveness of M.
TC
Logical & concise. Historically we had seen other nations being manipulated by some egoistic leaders to be politically self benifitting. The true could be same by the motto savvy Malaysia. EveryOne knows about the true motives of Perkasa, is truely to perk"o"sa the rakyat by throwing invisible political punches that Umno is capable of doing freely for the past decades. Now they would need an arm that runs on its own to do that without strings attached(to Umno) undermining the knowledge masses. Lamest 1party.
Rakyat must vote UMNO and MCA out come next GE !!
end to racism !! end to corruption !!
Goh Wei Liang
1 malaysia ma , so no more racial based party like MCA , MIC..correct , correct , correct..
Truly 1 Malaysia , afterall whatever the Big Boss said you guys are always prompt to response-correct ,correct,correct.
Even the fart smells good.
Chinese have a brighter future without MCA...
It takes a court jester to be MCA’s president; OKT does not profess right skill to stay as president. The ‘dare to talk and challenge status quo’ attitude fit well with the community and probably can make him up in MCA leadership (that only after mar-08). But, to stay on top with Umno you need to be a court jester!
History is always repeating itself, in ancient china, many brave generals fought the wars, win the wars but end up losing their head when return to serve as high ranking officers to the emperor or the minister. The eunuch profess the court jester skill-set to serve the emperor, that’s how they make the living. The good news for OKT is he has nothing to lose now!, make himself to be remembered! Expose PKFZ to Malaysian. Take up the moral courage and let Malaysian remember him as a braved victimized general and not a typical BN component party’s eunuch. We already has a well recognized eunuch from Penang, we need no more.
1. OngTK should show his sincerity to protect Rakyat by exposing the PKFZ debacles. By that action, he demonstrates what he stands for - right the wrongs, for the country.
2. ChuaSL is the father of all slyworms. He nego'ed the easiest and shortest way to cabinet for ChuaJr. Then he pulled the carpet under OngTK just to get the Chair. Any MCA members that vote him in must be batblind n also evil in heart.
3. LiowTL - a crybabe whining n sniffling since he unsuccessfully tried to upstage OTK. Gosh, what can any of his voters benefit out of his leadership except again evil stuffs? BUt thanks to Liow, I am now so attuned to all Alphards as I go on the roads heheheeheh
The fresh MCA election by the same set of delegates is not going to solve anything. It is like buying time to brew another saga by the two factions who chose this mode.
MCA would have the chance to redeem itself when the PKFZ was brought to light.Yet this opportunity was not effectively used. Instead the factions are out to destabilise the party by attacking their president instead of lending him all the support that he needed. THe name of the game is still money, position and power under the guise of race, religion and nation.
UMNO's strategy of using religion and race to gain support clearly indicate that they are living in the state of denial. They lost because of issues that are not related to race or religion.The electorate of today is different from those in the past. They are with higher educational level, better informed and exposed to ICT.
Many issues such as PKFZ are opportunities for BN to use in their favour. Use them before it is too late.
Khoo there is no such thing as close relationship with Umno under the present leadership.The deal have already been done.Chua will take over the helm and Liow will be DP.Chua may denied it which he will always does!These two are stooges and can be easily eaten up because of their tainted past!
Dear KKP, sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander. Racial equality will also make MCA and MIC as irrelevant as Umno.
Why should race based parties struggle to end racism when success would mean their demise?
Given this fact should race based parties even be allowed to exist?
None of the MCA leaders has the balls to speak up against Malay special rights and the Bumi/non-Bumi status of Malaysians. They just keep their own mouth shut to fill up their own pockets. The only Chinese Malaysian leader who dared to speak up was Lee Kuan Yew.
dr kkp said:
What good can it do if it can't contribute to end racism, corruption, mismanagement and power arrogance?
Posted by Khoo Kay Peng at 1:44 AM 14 comments
ah LOL this is what mca has been doing under the "tutelage" and "colleteral profits" to the bn. mca or for that matter, any chinese political party within bn is there to serve the bn and thereby the chinese politicians themselves
OTK is the victim of the powerful dark hands di-belakang mau others to run MCA according to BIG brothers' directives when he is opening the rusty cans of various maggots BUT
now...now tak boleh lah IF he is ousted !! SIGH !
Many of our Malaysian brethrens are pure suckers they always get conned easily by hypocrites and “superheroes”, that’s why we are what we are today, we got betrayed for over 50 years into a near hopeless situation today…
I say, none of the 3 stooges deserve to be our leaders, it’s a shame that they still remain as our leaders and they probably will remain as our leaders… Even if one of them lose out in the 3.28 re-election, they may join PKR (Parti KeAdaan Rojak) and continue to be our leaders…
For now, I hope the Hypocrite Superhero Ong TK get booted out from his “MCA Supreme Chinese Leader” chair, next I hope all the 3 stooges get booted out in the coming GE-13 !!!
Please do so, for the sake of our children’s future in the Bolehland…
Those 2,378 so called "delegates from MCA who did not attend the AGM are a bunch of COWARDS, UNDIGNIFIED, SELFISH, CORRUPTED, SHAMELESS and most of all running DOGS of BN esp UMNO. These bums have no qualms about selling the chinese community for their selfish ends.Same species as that jumping female handicap frog from Jelapang.
We rakyat esp the chinese community must throw them all out come GE13.Never ever give them any pity and face.Just dumb them.
Ong TC, at least have a bit of guts to reveal those corrupted, unethical and shameless politicians in MCA pertaining to the PKFZ scandal. And if he is really sincere and MCA not depending on Umno "crutches", then we hope he willdo one last thing before he presumably bow out: reveal everything on PKFZ. We rakyat is well aware that there is more to it than meets the eye.
If you want to be remembered well, then do what is right. NOW!!!
That 3 musketeers L, W and C, one has a itchy little "brother", the other an apportunistic hospital "caretaker" while the last bum is a fat itchy money loving "educator" are the last persons on earth that the chinese community wanted to be their leaders.
Just wait for GE13, they will history.
What are those MCA goons thinking? So what if they win the coming MCA-re-election? The voters or rakyat will always remember you as traitors and do you think you stand a chance in the next GE?
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