MCA - 1 presiden, 2 timbalan, 0 pengikut

Jika mereka tak hati-hati, inilah yang akan berlaku kepada parti untuk bangsa Cina yang terbesar di Malaysia.
Ia mengakui mempunyai 1 juta pengikut.
Tetapi saya rasa dah lama jumlah keahlian semakin berkurangan.

Saya pun tak faham kenapa Ong Tee Keat ni nak berkeras sangat dan macam Lone Ranger - semua orang dia tembak. Dulu dah tembak mari Chua Soi Lek, lepas tu dah berbaik semula.
Kini dia tembak semua bekas penyokongnya yang telah belot dan Liow Tiong Lai pun dia tembak. Chua jadi Tonto kembali.

Pada saya, orang luar parti dan luar negeri lagi, adakan pilihanraya yang baru, To' Seri Ong. Jadilah anak jantan.
Barulah kamu tahu sama ada apa yang kamu buat - isu PKFZ misalnya - itu betul disokong warga MCA sendiri ataupun tidak.
Biar kalah tak apa, daripada menjahanamkam parti bangsa kamu sendiri.
Kalau berterusan begini, orang lari masuk DAP.
Pengikut kamu nanti dari 1,000,000 terus menjadi 0.
Kamu dari Hero, jadi Zero.
Sekarang pun, betul ke ramai orang Cina yang ambil pusing tentang hal-hal MCA dan Gerakan?
Sepi saja sambutan konvensyen Gerakan minggu lalu, hingga ketua pemudanya pun komplen kenapa hanya kira satu-pertiga saja delegatenya yang hadirkan diri!
Wartawan ini kerja selalu menyibuk dengan orang politik - tetapi kalau press conference lepas persidangan tahunan tak ada satu soalan pun, maknanya parti itu dah mati pun.
Kurang dari 100 perwakilan yang menghadiri ucapan penutup Kho Tsu Koon!!! Astaga.
Ini yang terjadi dengan Gerakan.
Kalau MCA tak jaga diri, dia pun tak lama lagi dikuburkan sendiri oleh pengikutnya yang lari.


Tetapi dari segi lain, cerita MCA sama seperti cerita Umno. Baik dalam tahun 1987 dengan Ku Li, atau 1997-98 dengan Anwar.
Perangai manusia sama saja.
Kalau dia dah benci, hancurkan parti tak apa.
Malah, hancurkan negeri pun tak apa, asal hati puas.

PM Najib, Subra and Makkal party woo Indians

Yes, we know that S. Samy Vellu is a liability to MIC and BN.
MIC has been abandoned by the Indians.
(If he is much loved still, he wouldn't have been voted out in his Sungei Siput ward, a constituency that he nurtured for umpteen years).
But is it true also that MCA has been abandoned by the Chinese?
And surely, we are not wrong to say that to many poor urban Malays, Umno is not relevant to them?

So how?
Will ditching Samy help MIC regain the trust of the Indians? (Under G. Palanivel, a Samy shadow).
Just like - will ditching Ong Tee Keat and putting up Chua Soi Lek help MCA bring back Chinese voters to BN?

Now, there is talk that after having lost recently to find relevance in MIC, S. Subramaniam may ditch the party. Utusan has the story here - word has been out on the street since he lost in the fight for the MIC No.2.
Subra, it is said, will soon leave MIC and hopes to bring a big chunk of the party faithful.
Where will he go?
Perhaps to a party that will be launched by PM Najib Razak soon.
But the big question remains: If Umno-BN-MCA is still seen as irrelevant to many voters, will ditching MIC for Parti Makkal Sakthi (People's Power) Malaysia help bring back Indian voters?

Maybe PM Najib is banking on this: The MIC has already been abandoned, so there is nothing to lose in opening a new book with a new ally.
Throw away the old baggage, buy a new luggage carrier from Samsonite.

All that is needed now is for the Indian community to see that Umno-BN is sincere in wanting to help them (like no more cow-like antics, including by Home Minister).
It might just work.

But first, we shall see what happens at the planned large Indian gathering in Klang Sunday/tomorrow for the Maperum Perani, the Great Movement.