Tuesday December 1, 2009
Central committee to discuss latest talks
By SYLVIA LOOI
IPOH: The MCA central committee (CC) will discuss the contents of the latest meeting between the Deputy Prime Minister and several key party leaders, said party president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat.
He said he had been briefed about the meeting, which took place on Sunday night.
Recovered: Ong shaking hands with Perak Kwang Tung Association members as he arrives at the group’s dinner in Ipoh yesterday, as association president Ng Kok Wah (in blazer at rear) looks on. The Transport Minister was speaking to reporters here after attending a unity dinner organised by the Perak Kwang Tung Association yesterday.
Ong was supposed to have been among the key MCA leaders to meet Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in a bid to settle the party’s leadership crisis but failed to do so after he was admitted into hospital for a stomach ailment.
Asked to comment on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s unhappiness with MCA’s problems, Ong said:
“I do not know (of the matter) as I was just discharged from the hospital today.”
On whether the party’s Dec 5 annual general meeting would go on as scheduled, Ong said the matter would be discussed during the CC meeting tomorrow.
Earlier in his speech, Ong, who turned up at the function with a piece of gauze taped to his right hand, took a swipe at certain quarters for going to great lengths to smear him.
“Nearly every day you can read in the newspaper bad reports about me. The main goal of these people is to remove me from the political circle,” he said.
Scoffing at the actions of these people, Ong added: “It will be good if these people can channel their energy to help taxpayers get back RM1.64bil siphoned off through the Port Klang Free Trade Zone.”
On claims that he had lost touch with the Chinese community, Ong asked if the 1,000 guests that night would have turned up at the unity dinner to hear him speak.
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