I refer to the Malaysiakini report PM tightens noose around Ong's neck .

The results of the MCA EGM announced do not surprise anyone as all Malaysian bystanders had expected it could go either way on both the main resolutions - or ‘no way’! The last ‘no way’ being the ultimate result.

So now the delegates have spoken. Ong Tee Keat has lost the confidence of his party as its president though by a very slim margin while Chua Soi Lek has also lost in his attempt to be reinstated as deputy president.

I have been watching the present tug-of-war between the two leaders and the infighting among MCA kingpins recently. Now that the mandated delegates have spoken, I will speak. I speak because before today, the MCA had turned into a two-headed snake with each head trying to pull the body in opposite directions.

Now after the EGM, the MCA is headless, so literally speaking, the Chinese have ‘killed’ themselves. If one possesses the ‘third eye’ or the instinct to see or feel for the dear departed, one will see its beloved founder, the late Tan Cheng Lock turning in his grave.

While all the unhealthy verbal ‘bouts’ were going on, nobody within MCA, not even the leaders themselves, realised that there was such a word as ‘reconciliation’ in their vocabulary which could have been used to avert the disastrous outcome of the EGM that has now split the party and will eventually ring the death knell of the MCA.

Even if fresh party elections are held now to elect new leaders, I am afraid the Chinese voters at large have given up hope on MCA. It is no longer relevant insofar as looking after the interest of the Chinese community is concerned. To the Chinese voters, the leaders are only keen on fighting at the top, not keen in looking after us at the bottom.

The trouble started to brew when (if my memory is correct) some bright spark from Simpang Rengam, Johor decided, or was instigated, to re-open the can of worms regarding Chua Soi Lek's unfortunate sexual encounter. That was the video filmed by the most despicable ‘peeping Toms’, more despicable than the ‘performer’, Chua himself.

But I seem to remember that though this Simpang Rengam guy withdrew from pursuing the matter, yet somehow the MCA presidential council was adamant. They still wanted to re-try Chua with the aim of removing him completely to ‘save’ the good ‘image’ of the party.

I have spoken to close friends and I will say it again. What Chua Soi Lek did in a three-star hotel in Batu Pahat is quite natural thing for a man still having sexual desires.

What is even more relevant to MCA is that the party had returned Chua Soi Lek as deputy president in the last party elections, and his son had also won a seat in the Parliament as the member for Labis. I would say the ‘enemies’ of Chua had failed miserably in their judgement of the strength of Johor MCA (my home state), the strongest in the whole of Malaysia.

To prove this point, one has only to recall the number of past MCA top cats from other states who had parachuted into the ‘safe’ constituencies of Johor to stay in power.

MCA should recognise the fact that Johorean Chua Soi Lek is not one you can easily push aside, especially by re-opening the wounds about the ‘shameful’ act which I am sure he wanted badly to forget and to get on with living, rebuilding his own damaged image and renew voters' perception of the party.

And now, what about the president Ong Tee Kiat who had the image of a straight-shooter, no nonsense guy bent on eradicating corruption and moving MCA to the forefront of Malaysian politics? What he has been accused of by some tycoon is not my business, for to me, a man is innocent until proven otherwise.

So let’s wait for the outcome of that accusation before we point fingers at Ong. What is more pertinent to MCA and to all Malaysians is as transport minister and armed with the report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, he was on the verge of carrying out his sacred duty of tracing the culprits who siphoned, not the millions, but billions of our taxpayers' money from that infamous Port Klang Free Zone project.

On account of the infighting, the prime minister has seen it fit to appoint a task force sans Ong to investigate PKFZ. So I would say the opposing faction to Ong has deprived all Malaysians of a probable golden opportunity to scrutinise the blatant disappearance and daylight robbery of our hard-earned money. Sayonara to that chance now.

Some websites and political writers have spied a ‘Third Force’ in the MCA in the making. I would say this ‘Third Force’ or even a ‘fourth column’ will be dead at birth because MCA is a goner, unless Ong Tee Keat and Chua Soi Lek now bury their pride, shake hands with sincerity, and immediately mend bridges in full view of the central committee and pass all necessary resolutions to return to the status quo.

This is a job for the fire brigade as the MCA is on fire! They can do this with the blessings of all right-thinking Chinese Malaysians. If that is done with expediency, I think MCA can be saved and will become even stronger than prior to the March 2008 general elections.

Will you reconcile, for the sake of the silent majority, please?