So How, MCA?

The MCA delegates have spoken loud and clear. OTK and CSL had been given the mandate by the delegates about a year ago to drive the party through the political Tsunami after 2008’s general election. But sadly, these two gentlemen simply cannot work with each other, they differ in so many ways but sharing a common character, both equally hard headed, and that ultimately lead to unavoidable split.

The central delegates of MCA had made yet another painful decision in the recently concluded EGM. If the president and his deputy cannot see eye to eye, it is best that two of them go so that a new leadership can be formed to steer the party and more importantly to better serve the community.

In any organization, people can come and go. Some political leaders for some reasons are hanging around for far too long. Some are so thick-skinned, reluctant to handover the leadership of the party despite being defeated in the general election. But if Ong did decide to step down, which I think he surely will, it is simply too short a time for him to make a noticeable impact and significant contributions to the Chinese community especially. He is simply making himself a record of the shortest-life president in the history of MCA and all the reforms that he was talking about will come to a natural death.

Ong and Chua started up the war, the central delegates voted for a ceasefire and that resulted in both of them have to go. It is now time for MCA to pick a new leadership that can garner the support of its member. Time has running short, MCA is urgently needing a new lease of life. For the interest of the party and Chinese community, MCA should form a new leadership that can start on a reform. Too many infighting over the past many decades has rendered MCA becomes the laughing matter in the coffee shops.