Former Gerakan vice-president Huan Cheng Guan has accused three of the party's leaders, including former president Dr Lim Keng Yaik, of causing disunity at all levels.

He warned that the BN component party would meet its end if Lim, Penang chief Dr Teng Hock Nan and national delegates' conference chairperson Chin Fook Weng are allowed to rule the roost.

huan cheng guan formally join pcm 191209 01 "These leaders are running the party as if it was their private limited company. They are controlling the party president (Koh Tsu Koon).

"Majority of the central committee members are aligned to the former president Lim. If this dangerous trend is left unchecked, Gerakan is sure to head towards death," he told Malaysiakini today.

Huan said disillusionment among Gerakan members against the trio was the main reason behind their exodus from the party to join him in the newly set up Parti Cinta Malaysia (PCM).

Huan, who was suspended for three years by Gerakan since June this year, quit the party last Wednesday and joined PCM two days ago.

Yesterday, some 500 members from the Machang Bubok branch quit the party, closed down the branch office and joined him in PCM.

'Teng thinks he is chief minister'

Huan also claimed that Lim, Teng and Chin were weakening the party from top to bottom.

"The public have already rejected them in the last general election. Now Gerakan members too are rejecting them," said the former Batu Kawan member of Parliament.

He claimed that Chin was the "main player among the trio" and hit out at Teng for still "dreaming about becoming Penang chief minister."

"Indeed, Teng thinks he is the chief minister," he said.

Huan described Koh's remarks that the exodus of his supporters from the party would not affect Gerakan as "a mere face-saving political jargon to placate the bruised ego of the party top brass."

Koh has claimed that the party has some 50,000 members in Penang alone.

Huan challenged Koh to go to the ground to assess the grassroots sentiments' against the party leadership.

"The majority of Gerakan members are disillusioned with the current leadership. They want new leaders to take over the party soon, or else they would leave," he said.

He also claimed that more Gerakan members would follow him soon, placing the figure at around 5,000.

Huan said he and his supporters would consider re-joining Gerakan if the trio - Lim, Teng and Chin, were no longer controlling the party leadership.

"I am not upset with the party, members or other leaders. So long as the trio is there, I and my supporters would not consider re-joining Gerakan," he said.