Stop harping on Chinese-majority seats issue between UMNO-MCA

(NST) – MCA Penang today turned the table on DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang by questioning his motive in playing up the issue on Chinese majority seats when the party had always claimed to be multiracial.

Penang MCA secretary Lau Chiek Tuan said Lim had no right to tell MCA to explain to people on whether it would surrender its Chinese majority parliamentary and state seats to Umno.

He said it was a poor attempt to tarnish the image and close cooperation between MCA and Umno with the voters.

“DAP claim to be multiracial so why keep talking about Chinese majority seats?

“This is all a political game of theirs,” he said when asked to comment on Lim’s remark.

Lim had told a press conference at noon today that he was expecting to meet an MCA “big gun” – a clear reference to MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek, anda not from Umno – in the Gelang Patah parliamentary seat in Johor, which he would be contesting in the polls.

Lim had claimed that MCA would not want to surrender the 53 per cent Chinese majority seat to its BN colleague.