MCA in damage control mode over ‘Chinese Perkasa’
By Clara Chooi, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 — MCA leaders today distanced themselves from their vice-president Datuk Donald Lim’s suggestion for a Chinese Perkasa, saying that the party does not practise retaliatory politics.
MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that Lim’s views, which were reported on Saturday, were not the official stand of the party.
“We have one golden rule — ‘do unto others as you would have others do unto you’. So do not do unto others as you do not want Perkasa to do unto you.
“So the stand is simple: This is not the party’s stand. The party has voiced out its stand that we sometimes do not agree with what Perkasa does or says, so why should we set up another body to counter them?
“Whatever action, there will be a reaction,” the health minister told reporters in Parliament today.
MCA Youth chief Datuk Wee Ka Siong said the party never practised “tit-for-tat” politics and was of the opinion that forming a Chinese Perkasa to counter the original Perkasa would not solve any issues.
Wee, who was himself recently at loggerheads with Perkasa’s fiery president Datuk Ibrahim Ali, said that Lim could have been misquoted.
“I was informed by a friend of Lim’s that his words had been spun out of context,” he said.
