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Monday 11 October 2010

Kayveas: Other races also not immigrants anymore

The Star 


THE Prime Minister’s statement that Malaysian Chinese should not be called immigrants should also be applied to other races whose families have made Malaysia their home for generations, said a Barisan Nasional component party leader.

More leaders should stand up and say that the fourth and fifth generation, born of immigrants, were not immigrants anymore, said PPP president Datuk M. Kayveas.

At the MCA AGM yesterday, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that the Chinese were already third to fifth generations who were born in Malaysia though their descendents were immigrants, and that the Chinese today should not be referred to as immigrants.

On Dr Chua, Kayveas said the party president was democratically elected and the most popular person to lead MCA.

“If one or two people are still unhappy about that, follow (former Wanita chief) Chew Mei Fun’s example and resign,” he said, commenting on Kuantan MCA Wanita delegate, Khiew Yuh Jiuan, who questioned Dr Chua’s leadership at the Wanita AGM on Saturday.

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