I
have greatest sympathy and even pity for the MCA President, Datuk Seri
Dr. Chua Soi Lek, who had to declare today that he will not be
contesting in the 13th general election, thus becoming the first MCA President not to be fielded.
It
is so embarrassing and humiliating an event that Chua had to come out
with a statement which will make history as utterly without credibility,
claiming that he is opting out of contesting in the 13GE because he is“walking the talk in allowing new and young leaders in the
rejuvenation process so that the party will continue to remain
relevant”.
In
actual fact, having a MCA President who is not allowed to contest in
the 13GE by the Barisan Nasional (BN) Chairman and UMNO President, Datuk
Seri Najib Razak, is in fact the latest and most powerful evidence of
the utter irrelevance of MCA not only in the new Malaysian political
landscape but in post-2008 Barisan Nasional politics.Special "illogic"
Chua
possesses a special illogic when he claimed that his not contesting in
the 13GE is to allow him “to prove a point that I am fighting for a
cause, that MCA remains relevant”, when the “point” all Malaysians see
from the episode is a MCA President who is so irrelevant , unqualified
and unsuitable that the UMNO President does not allow him to stand as a
BN candidate in the 13GE, as he will not only become a liability for MCA
candidates but also to all UMNO and BN candidates as well!
Najib
is clearly fearful that Chua's candidature on the BN ticket will ensure
the realisation of the most famous RAHMAN political prophecy with him
as the last UMNO/BN Prime Minister
Chua's
claiming that his not contesting as a candidate in the 13GE is “to
prove a point that he is fighting for a cause” makes as much sense as
his earlier criticism that I am a “political fugitive” for leaving a
comparatively safer constituency of Ipoh Timor where I had won with a
majority of over 21,000 votes to a high-risk constituency of Gelang
Patah which was won by the BN candidate with a 9,000-vote majority in
2008 and a humongous 31,666-vote majority in 2004.
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