600 Perak BN members to defect, says PKR

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Some 600 members of Perak BN component parties are expected to join PKR on Saturday, former Lumut member of parliament Dr Yap Yit Thong said.

Yap, a former Ipoh Timur MCA vice-chairman who joined PKR in July along with former health minister Chua Jui Meng and former senator David Yeoh, said the ceremony to receive the BN members would take place at the Tow Boo Keong Hall in Ipoh.

mca anti ong dinner puchong 160508 yap yit thong He claimed that 90 percent of them were from MCA, Umno, MIC and PPP while the rest had never joined any party before.

"Most of them are from MCA, coming from Ipoh Barat, Ipoh Timur, Batu Gajah, Gopeng, Tambun, Kampar, Taiping and Lumut," he told a news conference at the Perak PKR office today, adding that defectors from the Chinese-based party numbered about 400.

He also claimed that there would be more Perak MCA members joining the party after the coming MCA extraordinary general meeting.

"This is only the first wave," he said, adding that the decision by MCA members to join PKR had nothing to do with the recent sacking of MCA deputy president Dr Chua Soi Lek.

- Bernama



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