BN portal: MCA hudud stance 'biadap'

 

Fissures among BN parties over the hudud issue appear to be widening with the BN Backbenchers' Council running a scathing editorial against MCA in its website.

In the editorial on their official site BNBBC.my entitled 'No need for MCA to also wail about hudud like the DAP', MCA was labelled “biadap” (insolent) for openly opposing hudud.

“It doesn't matter if PAS or Umno proposes (hudud), DAP will maintain its stance against it...

“However, when MCA, a component party in the BN also questions it, then we have ask the Chinese party's motive, especially when its deputy president Wee Ka Siong (left) makes public statements about reviewing MCA's position in the BN,” the editorial read.

It added that Wee, who is “speculated to be filling a cabinet post soon”, spoke as if MCA is a dominant party in the BN “without respecting Umno”.

The article also said MCA does not even consider the fact that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak is still offering cabinet posts to MCA despite the latter's poor showing in the 13th general election.

“MCA should not jump up or try to be a hero...in fighting for the Chinese community.

"The rakyat knows, DAP is more successful than MCA,” it said.

“MCA need not pretend or threaten to seek support of thousands to surround the Parliament to stop hudud as only a handful of Chinese voters still trust the party.”

It also advised MCA to “keep its silence” if it disagrees, instead of “stabbing” Umno by openly opposing hudud.

Wee blames Malaysiakini

Meanwhile in a separate article BNBBC.my quoted Wee saying Malaysiakini had “twisted” his remark at a forum yesterday regarding MCA's position in BN.

“I said that 'if we are not meant to be' (tidak ada jodoh), but we did so diplomatically. I never said if (Umno) agrees to hudud, we will leave the BN. I never did.

“I said, if that happened, we will discuss our position, not that we will leave BN..

“Malaysiakini twisted what I said. The more I speak to Malaysiakini the more I get walloped.

"This is why I don't answer or say anything to Malaysiakini,” Wee was quoted saying.

Malaysiakini yesterday reported Wee saying MCA may review MCA's position in BN if Umno supports hudud.

MCA has been vehemently opposing Kelantan's move to table a Private Members Bill at the next Parliament sitting in order to allow the state to implement the hudud enactment first passed at state level in 1993.

However it has remained painfully silent on Umno's role in encouraging PAS Kelantan and vocally supporting the move.