MCA: Kit Siang and Guan Eng should quit for helping PAS

PETALING JAYA: DAP must shoulder the blame for “empowering” PAS in the previous general elections, said a senior MCA leader.

MCA publicity bureau chief Datuk Chai Kim Sen said DAP’s four elected representatives from Malacca who quit the party earlier this week had apologised for campaigning for PAS on party orders.

“They regretted their actions and apologised for misleading the voters into believing that PAS had abandoned its goal of implementing a theocratic state, to be replaced with a welfare state,” he said in a statement yesterday.

Chai said DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang and his son, secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, should be held accountable for empowering PAS.

He said despite having deceived the Chinese community in the past, Kit Siang planned to continue working with PAS in the next general election.

He said both Kit Siang and Guan Eng had not repented for their past deeds, and were willing to sacrifice the interests of the non-Muslim community for political gain.

“Kit Siang and Guan Eng should resign for this,” he added.

Chai urged DAP’s other MPs to work with MCA to defend the Federal Constitution “as compensation for their mistakes”.

“Apologies and resignations aside, DAP must stop all actions that lead to the theocratisation of the country,” he added.

Meanwhile, Gerakan president Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong said the resignation of the four DAP lawmakers proved that there was a crisis of confidence in the party leadership.

“This has also led to an identity crisis within the DAP, due to the opportunistic nature of the party’s top leadership,” he said in a statement.