DAP's Lim Lip Eng today chided MCA for being 'fork-tongued' about being in BN.

In a statement, the Kepong MP claimed that the BN party, to begin with, never had the intention to leave the former ruling coalition.

Lim was commenting on the announcement by MCA president Wee Ka Siong yesterday that the party's central committee has chosen to remain in BN to maintain multiracial cooperation.

"We have reached a fork in the road and we can pick only one path.

"The first path: MCA leaves BN behind and allows Umno-PAS' partnership to become the framework of the opposition, where a Malay-Muslim majority opposition is pitted against a more diverse ruling coalition.

"The second path: MCA stays in BN and strengthens the premise of multiracial cooperation, ensuring diversity remains the crux in the opposition. The MCA central committee chooses to stay in BN," Wee had told a press conference.

According to Lim, MCA's declaration did not come as a surprise to many.

"When the resolution (to leave BN) was proposed, Wee and the MCA leadership knew what ending they wanted. It was never their intention to leave, but to continue to hoodwink the people to buy time.

"The only fork in the road is the forked tongue coming out of MCA's mouth," Lim said.

MCA and MIC had previously said that they were "moving on" from BN to explore new alliances.

The two parties had accused Umno of violating consensus in the coalition, including on the appointment of Nazri Aziz as its secretary-general.

Acting Umno president Mohamad Hasan subsequently convened a BN supreme council meeting, which had not been in session since the coalition's defeat in the last general election.

Nazri was also asked not to attend the meeting after MCA and MIC threatened a boycott if he showed up.