Always supportive of Chinese schools

Long-serving: Lim (right) who was then Human Resources Minister, with the then Education Minister Najib and then Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu during the ground-breaking ceremony for Cyberjaya in 1997.

MCA veteran Tan Sri Lim Ah Lek has a record which not many party politicians can claim – the silver-haired retired politician has served under Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as a state executive councillor and beside him as a Cabinet colleague.

There’s another accolade, Ah Lek was recruited into politics by Tun Abdul Razak, the former premier and father of the present Prime Minister.