MCA CLANDESTINE STRATEGY TO MAINTAIN POWER

MCA is the second largest BN component member. Politically, it is extreme strategic importance and inevitably leads to “politicization”. MCA has undergone profound, often dramatic crisis.

Its political importance and power resources have always made MCA a prime target for the covetous eyes of mighty politicians inside or outside the party. With its unique political position, MCA has been the main center for party leader rivalries seeking controlling and monopolizing the party.

With the settling political crisis of team A and team B, Ong Ka Ting emerged as the MCA president, the most powerful man in Chinese society or the so called emperor of Ong dynasty.

Ironically, clandestine or covert action often contributes to maintaining the power. It is manifestly true that MCA vice-president Donald Lim Siang Chai said he was among those targeted by a clandestine group of ‘spies’ allegedly delegated to snoop on the political enemies of MCA president Ong Ka Ting.

“If it is true, then those who are responsible will definitely be taken to task by MCA members because this is something that is bad, especially if you go looking into people’s private affairs. I was informed not long ago that I am one of the targets of this spying group,” he said.

Lim’s statement came on the heels of claims by several figures within MCA reported earlier this week pertaining to the existence of this group. They said it was formed about three years ago to pry into the private lives of and dig up dirt on a senior official’s political rivals. The most prominent casualty of their machinations, it was claimed, was former MCA vice-president Dr Chua Soi Lek.