KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 5 — MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat today kept silent over the party's roiling internal crisis despite a "Greater Unity Plan" that keeps him and reinstated deputy Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek as top party leaders.
The Transport Minister refused to answer endless questions about the party while visiting the Bangsar LRT station, saying he would only talk about his portfolio.
"Today, I only entertain questions on transportation. At this station, I don't see any MCA branch," Bernama quoted Ong as saying when asked about the challenge to the Registrar of Societies' (RoS) decision that Dr Chua is his party deputy.
MCA vice-president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai has said he will challenge the RoS decision as an earlier MCA central committee meeting had made him the party No. 2 although he preferred fresh party polls.
Ong also refused to comment on a report in a Chinese daily on the move by five members of the MCA disciplinary committee, including its chairman Ng Cheng Kiat, who planned to resign as they were not happy with the top leadership in handling the developments in the party.
"If you (journalist) came for that, then I'm sorry. The thing is that they are rumours, hearsay... why allow all this to dominate our political scene? Sometimes, when proper statements are made, people are not happy. They don't respond. But there is a market for hearsay.
"It's better for me to do the work (that) the people are hoping for," he added.
Both Liow and party Youth chief Datuk Wee Ka Siong today pressed their case for an EGM to call for fresh polls, saying the party leadership needed a fresh mandate.
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