MCA has denied its deputy president Wee Ka Siong meant to complain that Prime Minister Najib Razak had decided retain the Sedition Act without consulting BN partners, saying Wee had been "misunderstood".

MCA central committee member Lua Choon Hann in a statement today defended Wee against Umno Cheras division chairperson Syed Ali Alhabshee's ( right ) rebuke that Wee was being rude "baseless ... because he had misunderstood what Ka Siong wanted to say".

"MCA fully understands the prime minister’s decision in making this difficult choice, and we support this decision as a move which will help deter racial and religious extremism and by extension, improving racial harmony," Lua said.

Wee on Friday also tweeted that he was "shocked" by an article in The Rakyat Post (TRP) in which he was quoted saying MCA had not been consulted over Najib's decision unveiled to a standing ovation at last week's Umno general assembly in Kuala Lumpur.

"Shocked to read The Rakyat Post - 'Umno decides everything? MCA not consulted on the retention of Sedition Act' - the above was not from my mouth.

"Please refer to KiniTV and voice recording by other journalists at the Parliament lobby yesterday," tweeted the minister in Prime Minister's Department.

'Turning off public from BN'

Reiterating that TRP had misquoted Wee, Lua berated Syed Ali for jumping the gun and attacking his BN colleague without checking the facts first.

He said such leaders were the reason voters are "turned off" by BN.

"It is warlords like him who bring disrepute to BN and its component parties by habitually bashing fellow leaders in order to win small battles within circles.

"It is leaders like this that need to look at themselves in the mirror and asked why the public at large are turned off or have a misconception of BN.

MCA and other BN component parties have received flak allegedly not being consulted in Najib's surprise U-turn on the Sedition Act after having promised to repeal it before the last general election.

DAP in particular called the BN parties " window dressing " after they remained silent as Umno delegates continued to belittle them at the AGM.

Its secretary-general Lim Guan Eng called them " stooges " for allowing the PM to make an allegedly unilateral decision when the component parties had earlier expressed their support for the draconian, colonial era law to be abolished.