Former Gerakan president Dr Lim Keng Yaik is going to give the party’s national delegates conference (NDC) this year a miss as he has been hospitalised due to an illness.

Contacted by Bernama , Lim, who headed the party for 28 years before stepping down in April 2007, said he will not be chairing the Gerakan Life Members Council (LMC) meeting tomorrow or attending the opening ceremony of the Gerakan NDC by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak on Sunday.

“I’m still in the hospital. I have been here since last week. Most likely the party president (Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon) will chair the LMC meeting,” he said.

Lim become LMC chairman after resigning as party adviser in October 2010.

This will be the second time he will be missing the Gerakan NDC since stepping down as party president.

The first time was Gerakan annual conference in September 2007 as he had just undergone a minor surgery.

- Bernama