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MCA sacks founding member who joined Bersih protest
Published:  Dec 1, 2015 5:00 PM
Updated: 9:58 AM

MCA has sacked its 76-year-old Malacca Wanita adviser Kian Sit Har for participating in opposition-related activities.

Kian founded Wanita MCA in Malacca in 1975 and was a member of the party for 58 years, shortly before Merdeka.

"As a party member, attending activities of other political parties, listening to ceramah to improve knowledge or to take photographs with other political party leaders, it shows that even though we are from different parties, we are still friends.

"So I did not see any big problems in this. But today, the party (MCA) is of the view that I violated its rules and have decided to sack me," she said in a video uploaded by China Press .

She first shot to prominence in 2012 when she joined the Bersih 3 protest and earned the ire of then Malacca chief minister Mohd Ali Rustam.

She also participated in the Kita Lawan rally in March this year which protested the jailing of then opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, prompting MCA to suspend her membership for six months.

This morning, she received a letter from MCA secretary-general Ong Ka Chuan informing her that she had been expelled from the party.

Kian said she accepted her expulsion and will not be appealing.

"The party has its own views and rules, therefore I will not be appealing the decision," she said.

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