Why must Umno do that?
Salleh Said Keruak
Lim Kit Siang asked whether Umno is prepared to open its membership to non-Malays.
This is actually a non-issue because Umno has never claimed to be a multi-racial party — like DAP is claiming. In fact, neither has MCA or MIC made this claim as well.
All three parties admit to being ethnic-based. And that was why the Alliance Party was created in 1952 — so that Umno, MCA and MIC can retain their ethnic base and yet come together under a multi-racial coalition.
DAP, on the other hand, claims to be a multi-racial party. But the party is almost entirely Chinese except for a fraction of its non-Chinese members.
