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Sunday, 20 December 2009 14:03
KUALA LUMPUR - The MCA central committee members who submitted their undated resignation letters had themselves obstructed the party’s ‘greater unity plan’, said CC member Ti Lian Ker.
All CC members should have first wait for the recommendations of the special committee that was working out a solution for the party to hold fresh polls.
“With discipline, the CC members could have waited for the recommendations of the special committee and submit their resignations together in due time to pave the way for fresh elections in the interest of the party,” he said in his blog.
Last Wednesday, MCA vice-president Liow Tiong Lai and 12 others submitted undated letters of resignation to party secretary-general Wong Foon Ming.
Undated with conditions
Their condition was that the letters were only to take effect if they met the requirements of two-thirds or 21 of the 31 CC members hacing to resign before the elections could be held.
Among those who tendered the undated letters was another party vice-president, Tan Kok Hong.
The others include Deputy Youth and Sports Minister Wee Jeck Seng, Deputy Higher Education Minister Dr Hou Kok Chung, Senators Yeow Chai Tiam and Alex Wong Siong Hwee and veteran CC member Wong Mook Leong.
Elected CC members who also submitted the undated letters are Lee Wei Kiat, Yu Chok Tow, Wong Nai Chee, Hoh Khai Mun, Liew Yuen Keong and Edward Khoo Keok Hai.
Ti said MCA's warring factions should have worked together in unison, quietly ironing out differences and agreeing to the approaches towards fresh elections without compromising or breaching the sanctity and supremacy of the party constitution.
He claimed this did not happen when some CC members ‘hijacked’ and ‘disrupted’ the functions of the party's special committee, set up by the CC itself, by tendering an insufficient number of resignations.
An Umno blogger's view
Meanwhile, former Pulau Manis state assemblyman Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz suggested that the Baarissan Nasional has a long-term strategy to handle the MCA crisis.
The former Pahang state rep, known as ‘sakmongkol AK47’ in the blogosphere, said the MCA must be seen as a dependable, rational and stable representative of the Chinese community.
Umno, the senior member of the Barisan, recently held talks with the MCA to help resolve its leadership tussle, involving factions led by party president Ong Tee Keat, deputy president Dr Chua Soi Lek and Liow.
Political observers believe Umno wants all its Barisan partners, and the troubled MCA in particular, to put their house in order to work on the Government Transformation Programme (GTP) as well as on the National Key Result Areas (NKRAs). – Malaysian Mirror
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