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Challenge for MCA – Oppose openly to the revival of New Economic
Policy (NEP)
(Petaling Jaya, Monday):
DAPSY congratulates the newly elected leadership of MCA and MCA Youth
but sternly reminds MCA and MCA Youth that there are still a lot of
jobs that the MCA and MCA Youth have neither started nor finished as
part of the government. DAPSY was first
disappointed that the issue of Nanyang bought over was neither discussed nor
properly raised in the last MCA and MCA Youth AGM. This is an indication
that MCA and MCA Youth are alienating itself from the core concern of the
Chinese community which MCA claims to represent. The new
leadership of MCA and its youth wing should have taken the first step in
order to overcome its psychological barrier to discuss the matter as this
will remain a core concern from the Chinese community. What was
delivered by MCA President Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting during the AGM when he
spoke in Malay that there are concerns from the Chinese SMI entrepreneurs
facing difficulties in securing government projects and contracts from GLCs
will remain meaningless if there is no follow-ups. The very first
decision that MCA has to make is to oppose openly to the revival of New
Economic Policy (NEP) which was raised in the last UMNO AGM and is the
root-cause of such scenario whereby government projects are awarded only to
cronies but not to the best performer. The voice of
objection has to be made clear to the current UMNO leadership as this will
not only affect the economical competitiveness of our nation but it will be
the stumbling block in promoting integration and national unity. Instead of NEP or
Agenda Melayu, MCA should suggest Agenda Malaysia, which has
been championed by DAP since 1966, whereby Malaysians regardless of their
racial, economical, religious and educational background should be treated
fairly without discrimination. MCA must be bold
to admit that there must be a fresh effort to rejuvenate the party to be a
politically relevant party. An ADUN or MP plays the role of legislating
rules and regulations. MCA’s ADUNs and MPs should be more politically savvy
and should not self-reduce themselves to the roles of local councillors
whereby they are only interested in solving local problems. Else, even though
there is a newly elected leadership, there will be no changes and MCA will
continue to become politically irrelevant and drifted by the political
hegemony of UMNO.
(22/8/2005)
* Lau Weng
San,
DAPSY Assistant Publicity Secretary
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