Gerakan’s former president Dr Lim Keng Yaik, Penang chief Dr Teng Hock Nan and national delegates’ conference chairperson Chin Fook Weng have been singled out as leaders destroying the party unity at all levels.
In saying this, former Gerakan vice-president Huan Cheng Guan said Gerakan would head towards an inevitable political demise so long the three politicians continue to dominate and rule the roost in the party.
“These leaders are running the party as if it was their private limited company.
“They are controlling the party president (Koh Tsu Koon).
“Majority of the central committee members are aligned to the former president Lim.
“If this dangerous trend was left unchecked, Gerakan is sure to head towards an eventual permanent death,” Huan told Malaysiakini today.
He said disillusionment among Gerakan members against the trio was the main reason behind their exodus from the party to join him in the newly set up Parti Cinta Malaysia (PCM).
Huan, who was suspended for three years by Gerakan since June this year, quit the party last Wednesday and joined newly formed PCM two days ago.
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Yesterday, some 500 members from Machang Bubok branch quit the party, closed down the branch office and joined him in PCM.
PCM president Tang Weng Chew received the membership forms from them.
Huan claimed that Lim, Dr Teng and Chin were crippling and weakening the party from top to bottom.
“The public have already rejected them in the last general election.
“Now Gerakan members too are rejecting them,” said Huan, a former Batu Kawan member of Parliament.
He claimed that Chin was the “main player among the trio” and hit out at Dr Teng for still “dreaming on to become Penang Chief Minister.”
‘Indeed Dr Teng thinks he is the Chief Minister,” said Huan.
He described Koh’s remarks that the exodus of his supporters from the party of would not affect Gerakan as “a mere face-saving political jargon to placate the bruised ego of the party top brass.”
Koh has claimed that the party has some 50,000 members in Penang alone.
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Huan challenged Koh to get to the ground to assess the grassroots sentiments against the party leadership.
He claims that the party leadership was living in the state of denial about the true level of grassroots support to Gerakan.
“Majority Gerakan members are disillusioned with the current leadership.
“They want new leaders to take over the party soon, or else they would leave,” Huan said.
He claims that more Gerakan members would follow him out soon, perhaps another 5,000 of them.
Huan said he and his supporters would consider re-joining Gerakan if the trio – Lim, Dr Teng and Chin, were no longer controlling the party leadership.
“I am not upset with the party, members or other leaders.
“So long the trio is there, I and my supporters would not consider re-joining Gerakan,” he said.
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