'MCA leaderless, idea-less and impotent'

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vox populi small thumbnail 'The MCA EGM has shown that the MCA, Ong Tee Keat and Chua Soi Lek are all irrelevant and inconsequential and it also shows the voting delegates were confused and utterly ineffective.'

Soi Lek: MCA chief's head must roll

Wilkee: The MCA EGM has shown that the MCA, Ong Tee Keat and Chua Soi Lek are all irrelevant and inconsequential and it also shows the voting delegates were confused and utterly ineffective. They all voted with a question at back of their minds - ‘What's in it for me?

They now deserve the mess they have created - a leaderless, idea-less and impotent party going down the path of oblivion. That's not so bad, come to think of it.

Melayuhk: Chua's membership of MCA has been suspended and this was duly endorsed at the EGM. He therefore has no say.

Ong, on the other hand, is still MCA president and it is up to him if he wishes to resign. After all, he was duly elected at the last AGM by the overwhelming majority.

Summer: The MCA president should quit and a fresh poll be called to seek the mandate of the assembly for a new leadership in MCA.

This should be done before the end of 2009 so that MCA can start the year of 2010 with new leadership.

Bagan Pinang win 'all due to Isa '

Marjorie Chow: What needs to be done is to provide the Indians, especially those in the estate schools where the facilities are bare, a complete education.

The wealthy Indians should start a foundation (then go on a fund-raising campaign especially among the pro-opposition supporters) and upgrade these schools.

Highlight in the media how poorly the estate children are treated in these schools. NGOs should organise trips to these estate schools and distribute whatever material that's required to help them.

Give them some extra lessons. I've worked in an estate and I know how reclusive some of these people are.

They think that their karma is to remain in the estate and live and die there. Help change their mindset. But that only can only come with education.

Arun Paul: BN intelligentsia had common sense and understood Abraham Maslow, ‘hierachy of needs'.

As K Vasanthakumar clearly pointed out, Pakatan Rakyat did not address their current needs and hence did not appeal to the severely impoverished local Indians; of which most of whom are not well-educated, relegated to a life of extreme hardship and crime in the surrounding estates.

These ‘anxious, strife-stricken' people don't read about national issues. They are more concerned about what is happening locally. These are job opportunities, business allocations, housing needs, medical attention, welfare issues, insurance coverage, security against crime and the schooling needs for their children.

In a nutshell, how to pay the rent at all levels that affect them.

Gk: For someone who had served as Negri Sembilan menteri besar for 22 years, Mohd Isa Samad maybe deemed as a ‘sacrificial lamb' in Umno for committing a vote-buying offence. This to cater for someone else's interests favoured by Umno national leaders.

I believe many were indeed involved in vote-buying in one form or another, but were let go simply because they were the blue-eyed boys of the national leaders. Whether I see this correctly or not will be clearer as time goes by.

Razman Yahaya: You have to accept the fact that Isa Samad is a popular figure in Bagan Pinang. And also have to accept that Isa at the same time indulged in corruption.

So the rakyat of Bagan Pinang has chosen a popular and corrupted representative. A Malaysian ‘Robin Hood'.

'Take' from the BN government and do good things for the people in Bagan Pinang. Dr Mahathir Mohamad dan Tengku Razaleigh are both right to say this is short-term gain but long-term damage to Umno and BN.

Samy's iron grip turns 30 today

Gandhi: S Samy Vellu's 30 years in power hasn't been a good experience as I don't find any remarkable, positive community service done by him.

I thank him only for the formation of an affinity group, Hindraf, which jolted the Indians to the realisation that Indians have to stand up and be counted.

He beat up the Indians who raised the red flags in the running of Maika and other wrongs in MIC's service.

It is sad that his final march out will bring a lot of cheering in the community. Now I guess he realises that God is great and that after all, he's a mortal.



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