MCA and MIC have together sold the Indians rights to UMNO for MIC and MCA survival. That was the issue discussed in the article.
M.C.A IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE
The MCA president is frequently reported in the main stream newspapers busy giving out cash handouts to Indian and Chinese temples and its related NGOs like Hindu society. Yesterday it was reported in Tamil papers that Dr. Chua Soi Lek gave away RM141000 to 17 Hindu temples and Hindu societies in Tanjong Malim parliamentary constituency. Dr Chua was also reported in earlier days, giving out cash handout to Hindu temples, Chinese temples and Indian churches in Labis constituency. It’s heartwarming to see the MCA president handing out cash generously to religious institution. But these cash handouts are needed by people who are alienated and marginalized urban squatters and not the religious institutions which will be taken care byprovidence itself. The MCA president seems to opportunistically use the poverty of rural Indians for his political expediency. Such handouts will make these rural people dependent on BN. This is great service of MCA president to Indian community.
The Indians were long marginalized and deprived by the BN government need job opportunities, scholarship and higher education facilities and small business opportunities in local councils and government agencies and inclusive government policies. These are the urgent needs of the Indians and not cash handout to temples. The Indian community needs to recover and regain their political right as citizens of this country which has been steadily eroded by BN with the support of MIC. By offering cash handout out to Indian temples while simultaneously supporting UMNO racist policies, is Dr. Chua trying to keep Indians under the thumbs of UMNO. In offering cash to temples does Dr. Chua has the best of intentions for Indians or is this one form of bribery to entice Indian vote for MCA? Looks like Dr. Chua is bribing the Indian god to secure Indian votes because the Chinese votes are not for sale.
The way MCA president disbursing cash is clearly targeted at getting Indian votes in MCA constituency. Money handout by MCA starts much earlier than the actual election dates. Cash and goodies flows all the year round for BN parties. Only SPR cannot notice the cash handout. It is clearly visible that, after the 2008 elections, UMNO has lost confidence in MCA and MIC to secure the Chinese and Indian votes. The Prime Minister has appointed special officers reporting directly to him to reach out to Chinese and Indian voters with handout on their own. UMNO operates as though they don’t need any other component parties. UMNO can disburse cash themselves. They don’t need Chua Soi Lek to distribute their cash. But Chua Soi Lek needs to show gullible voters that they are also powerful and they too have cash to distribute.
Datuk Seri Najib Razak was crowned today the “Father of Moderation and Transformation” by the World Chinese Economic Forum (WCEF), which said the prime minister’s “fair and just leadership” had benefitted the Chinese community “tremendously”. WCEF chairman Datuk Michael Yeoh said in his speech at the conferment ceremony here today .READMOREHEREhttp://sakmongkol.blogspot.com/2012/01/najib-is-made-optimus-prime-by-michaels.html
As the saying goes that some things never change. UMNO cannot be reformed therefore it has to be removed. MCA and MIC hangs on to UMNO for their own survival and keep bribing and giving false hope to their members that all are well and good. If MCA and MIC have any pride and dignity for themselves and their party, they should stop bribing voters to vote for UMNO. The stakes are high for MCA president to get his son Chua Tee Yong to be appointed as a minister after the next election. After all MCA and MIC are all about what is in it for them. That’s what these disbursements of cash are all about. Throw in small fish to catch big fish.
Everyone sees Umno as giving orders and instructions to MCA, but it is MCA which is pulling Umno’s strings and it is done in such a covert manner that no one, not even Umno, can see it, much less detect it.
And that is why compared to the Umno strategists, Chua is the better game-player!
This means that Umno has given “tacit approval” to MCA to talk bad about Islam. Umno has left MCA to its own devices but yet it has to continue helping MCA to woo the Chinese. It is really laughable that Umno has failed to see through this simple ploy.
Umno is now MCA’s lackey. MCA has made a fool of Umno while Umno continues to think that MCA needs its assistance.
MCA can continue to do its part in the attacks on hudud to get Chinese support but if the Malays reject MCA, then it is Umno’s fault.
Umno does all the work but if things go wrong, Umno gets the blame. However, if the Chinese and Malays vote for MCA, MCA gets the credit for the “hard work put in”. Brilliant!
The MCA is to drop at least one-third of its lawmakers in the next general election where president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek believes the party can gain more than the dismal 15 federal seats it kept in Election 2008.The MCA president based his optimism on the belief that the Chinese community has returned to Barisan Nasional’s (BN) fold. Most Chinese, who mainly live in urban areas, swung to the opposition in the last general election.
Dr Chua saying that the purpose of the MCA going all over the country to visit the Indian community was to help them solve their problem. Thank you much for your concern Dr Chua. But giving cash handouts to temples and its associated NGOs will not help the poor Indians who need a decent job with decent salaries, proper education in schools for their children, places in University if they do well and technical training if they don’t do well in schools. Can MIC and MCA provide these basic human rights which are long denied to the Indian community by Barisan National? I am prepared to challenge Dr Chua on this matter anywhere anytime. MIC and MCA watched and allowed UMNOPUTRAS to erode the rights and blocked the economic growth of Indians and other communities.
Dr Chua is also reported saying that BN component parties had always defended the welfare and rights of the Indians in Sungkai despite having lost the state seat in the last general election. Can the MCA president spell out what are the welfare and rights that the MCA and MIC had fought and regained for the Indians in Sungkai and other areaas? Before PR can fulfill their promises Barisan National has snatched back the state through back door and devious means. Why the sudden interest on the Indian community now? MCA has never organized Deepavali function and provided handout on this scale before. Malaysian Indians can see through your political motives in providing cash generously to temples. Therefore it is not me who should apologize but the MIC and MCA leaders like your good self whom the people trusted for 54 years should redeem what is lost. Can you Dr Chua?
Delegate echoes undercurrent among party hawks that non Umno candidates who lost in the 2008 give their seats "back" to Umno.
Demands for seats belonging to Umno’s allies in Barisan Nasional again became a topic of a heated debate among delegates attending the party’s AGM today.
A delegate from Penang, Musa Sheikh Fadzir, echoed the undercurrent among party hawks that non Umno candidates who lost in the 2008 election give their seats “back” to Umno.
These are Malay majority seats that Umno believes it could recapture given the return of support from the ethnic majority, said Musa in a tone more demanding than constructive.
“We have made our sacrifices. We even allowed our BN component party members to contest in Malay majority areas,” he said at the presidential policy speech debate session.
“This is because the Malays and Umno, in the spirit of BN, are very accommodating. But they should return the seats to us if they know they cannot win,” he added.
Umno’s hardliners in the past have criticised component parties and blamed them for the waning non Malay support towards the government.
This resulted in intense racial politicking from the Malay party which observers believe had brought about the return of Malay support to Umno.
Votes from the majority electorate had strayed at the 2008 general election.
‘Two thirds impossible with non Malay support’
Party conservatives believe taking back Malay-majority seats would help party president Najib Tun Razak realise his need to return BN’s two thirds parliamentary majority.
This, however, would be impossible without the support of non Malays and “middle Malaysia”.
Najib is now forced to play the moderate in a bid to reconcile the gap between the party’s hardliners and the need for liberal support.
To do this, the prime minister placed emphasis on party reform while urging members to retrospectively look at Umno’s multi-racial history to deflect accusations that it is racist.
Musa, along with other delegates who took to the stage at the ongoing AGM, echoed their president’s sentiment and blasted those who accused Umno as racists.
He said the demands for non Umno seats were not communal in nature but for the good of the ruling coalition.
“What is important is for BN to register a victory as we have to look at the bigger picture and these are things that other component party members should realise.”
Dr Chua stressed it was imperative the party throws out its underperformers and fields new faces, pointing out that a more discerning Chinese electorate now pays more attention to the quality of the candidate, apart from the party he or she represents.
“I’ve already said — within the party there is no such thing as bargaining,” the former health minister told The Malaysian Insider during an interview last week.
“It’s not to say the old ones are being forced to go — they are told politely that they have to give way to the younger ones,” he said.
But it is no secret that Dr Chua, who inherited a beleaguered MCA in 2009 after a fractious party election, has to work at breakneck speed to ensure his party survives the 13th general election, said to be drawing close.The party president, who himself continues to be haunted by a scandalous past, is facing pressure from his BN partners, particularly the ruling Umno, to deliver the Chinese vote for the pact.
Since Election 2008, both parties have been at loggerheads numerous times as the MCA struggles to shake off talk of its subservience to Umno by demanding more slack for the Chinese community.
Despite its efforts, The Malaysian Insider understands that resentment remains in Umno’s circles that the Chinese-based party would still have to rely heavily on Umno’s supporters, the ethnic Malay voters, to win in most seats.
The MCA suffered its worst electoral performance in 2008 and was nearly wiped out of Parliament when its representation was slashed by half, from 31 to just 15 seats.
It performed no better in the statewide polls, clinching merely 31 seats. In Perak, the MCA’s representation dwindled to just one state assembly seat.
In the series of by-elections held after Election 2008, BN and the MCA noticeably failed to clinch the Chinese vote. During the Sarawak state election last year, the Chinese community flooded the ballot boxes with votes for the opposition, resulting in the DAP trouncing BN in a whopping 12 out of 15 seats.
But Dr Chua said the tide has likely changed and his party’s unpublicised, internal surveys have proven it.
Voter confidence from among the Chinese community, he said, has increased towards both the MCA and the BN, buoyed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s inclusive and transformative policies.
“We have confidence that we will do better than the last general election.
“This confidence is based on the fact that we have done many studies, which we have never disclosed and the studies have shown that although the opposition may rubbish us, (but) the Chinese are all very pragmatic people... They know that while the BN is not a perfect government, including MCA, they also know that the alternative is not in any way better,” he said.
The federal opposition of Pakatan Rakyat (PR), he added, was merely good at boasting its successes and basking in publicity.“But they (the opposition) have the advantage of the fact that they are not in power... so people are aware that they can promise anything but they cannot deliver and in fact, they don’t need to deliver,” he said.
Dr Chua said the first study conducted by the MCA was in May 2009, shortly after he was first elected party president.
The nationwide survey, he said, returned dismal results on Chinese voter confidence towards the BN, with some states showing as low as 12 per cent in terms of the community’s support.
But in May last year, Dr Chua said, the same survey returned promising results, even in opposition fortresses like Penang.
He said in some constituencies, particularly in BN’s stronghold of Johor, voter support varied between a low of 15 per cent and a high of 50 per cent, depending on the candidate.
“I’m glad to say that it has gone up, Chinese support, even in Penang.
“But whether this support is strong enough to tilt the balance, we don’t know... because they say in politics, one night is a long night,” Dr Chua said.
Buoyed by the feel-good factor following PR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy acquittal and cash handouts from Budget 2012, it is widely expected that Najib will call for snap polls within months, ahead of his mandate expiring in 2013.
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