Datuk Lee Kah Choon did not compromise his core values by simply be saying what everyone wants him to say. He tries to confront a different political ideology by working across party lines. Can that really happen?
It is answered by his action to quit as a Gerakan member with immediate effect after he was lambasted for accepting Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng's offer to become director of the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) and investPenang.
Although the old saying is that politics is an art of impossible, but as a member of Gerakan, and under the same similar cultural environment but a different political ideology, he can't make the history to become the first bipartisan politician in Malaysia.
Ironically, the political reality is not determined by given and unchanging natural laws but by social norms and conventions that were malleable over time even under the era of globalism.
Historically, there were precedent, both former Gerakan president Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu and Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik were from MCA. DAP leaders Richard Ho and Yap Pian Hon cross over to MCA and became leaders. They had to quit as party member concern.
Under Malaysian political realism, the action taken by Datuk Lee Kah Choon to quit as a Gerakan member with immediate effect after he was lambasted for accepting Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng's offer to become director of the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) and investPenang, is thus probably appropriate and justified.
His action most probably would put the matter to rest and that he could move forward and work on some serious tasks at hand.
Lee said today he made the decision to quit as party member as the Gerakan leadership could not accept his appointment as director of the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) and investPenang.
“Since my decision to accept the appointment is not acceptable to the Gerakan leadership, I believe it is best for me to retreat totally from party politics. I have submitted a letter to the party leadership to withdraw my membership from Gerakan,” he said in a one-page statement faxed to all media organizations here today.
As a person of principle and his image a a professional lawyer, I do not think that DAtuk Lee should accept the appoitment in the first place. To make the point clear, is that the organisation that he has accepted the position are Penang Development Corporation and Invest Penang which is the a key position in the country as Penang has been acted as a role model of attracting foreign investment to all otehr staes as well as in the international community. As the Penang political scene has historically highly correlated with social and economic development and has always being the key function of the state government of Penang, Datuk Lee acceptance would be an act of his personal expression of disgrievance of the former state governement, and showing that he do not has a clear political direction and only act for his personal well being and future political career
ReplyDeleteAs a Gerakan member and a former top position leader, such act deserved to be sacked.
Tun Lim Chong Eu and DAtuk Lim Keng Yaik quit from MCA and form a new party but they did not accept any posts of the oppositions.
Tun Lim Chong Eu and Datuk Lim Keng Yaik also feel the green pasture. More over, nobody feel the worth of offering.
ReplyDeleteOnly Tun Lim quit MCA and jointly form Gerakan but not Lim Keng Yaik cross over to Gerakan.
I think Lee Kah Choon's thinking is in line with Tun Lim and Datuk Lim, wise man think a like, the political culture of Gerakan that the green pasture. Golden opportunity only hit once.......... remember, penang politics is evolution but not devolution
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