The undercurrents of disunity within MCA are becoming "small streams" and unlikely to impact negatively o­n the party's performance in the next general election, said its president Dr Ling Liong Sik today.

He said party members were "getting a little bit fed up with unneccessary undercurrents" and wanted to get o­n with their work, citing the newly launched Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Utar).

"The members want to go o­n, the work must go o­n. Utar is too important to be undermined by such undercurrents. The people's response to the Utar project is very, very good," he told reporters after chairing a o­ne-hour presidential council meeting at the party headquarters.

"The mood has changed. Everywhere we go, people are happy with what we are doing. They support Utar. The undercurrents are becoming little streams - slow, friendly streams," he said.

Ling was asked to comment o­n party secretary-general Dr Ting Chew Peh's statement in a Chinese newspaper that undercurrents of rivalry and disunity continued to split MCA into two.