The Team A-Team B feud in the MCA has intensified in recent weeks and it is not surprising that talks of reactivating the "Peace Agenda" introduced by Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad have been making its rounds.

But it seems that party president Dr Ling Liong Sik is not too keen of talking about it.

Asked today if negotiations were underway to get the peace plan moving again, he remained non-committal.

"I don't want to comment at this moment," he said when asked if he and MCA deputy pesident Lim Ah Lek had met Dr Mahathir separately this week.

Nothing positive

According to a Bernama report, Ling said that if there was anything positive, he would contribute towards it but there was nothing yet.

"If there is anything positive, we will do anything to help and contribute. We will participate constructively but right now there is nothing," he said in Kampar, Perak.

Ling said lots of rumours and speculations in the past had been proven wrong.

"I had been hearing all these rumours for the past few years. It had always been proven wrong," he added.

Mahathir, who is Barisan Nasional chairperson, came up with the plan last year after a protracted dispute between two camps in the MCA had threatened to split the party.

The two factions had agreed that the party elections last year proceed but without any contest which saw incumbents from divisional to national levels returned for another three-year term, until 2005.

Cannot resolve dispute

Following that, Lim had announced o­n Jun 28 last year that he was willing to resign from all party posts provided the MCA leadership drew up a comprehensive leadership succession plan.

However, the peace plan could not solve the internal dispute due to several issues, mainly over the question of successors to the two top leaders.

On Jan 6 this year, Lim had said that he would challenge Ling for the presidency if the latter was still around in 2005.

Ling, o­n the other hand, had said that he had no plans to resign as his term expired o­nly in 2005.

In recent days, allegations of triads' involvement and a poison-pen letter accusing party vice-president o­ng Ka Ting of direct contact with shady characters have threatened to split the two factions further.