Wanita MCA will be tabling amendments to its constitution to ensure more participation among young Chinese women in the party's decision making process, said Wanita chief Dr Ng Yen Yen.

She said such a move would be a boost to the party by empowering women with equal opportunity of charting the party's direction.

To do so, she said the women's wing aims to rope in another 90,000 members within three years to bolster the present 410,000-strong membership.

Ng said this while delivering her speech at the Wanita MCA 31st annual general assembly in Kuala Lumpur today.

Status quo for Beliawanis

MCA secretary general Ong Ka Chuan was favourable to the proposal, adding that leadership programmes for female members would be a party priority.

"If Wanita is strong, therefore it also symbolise the strength of MCA," said Ong when met by reporters after officiating the assembly.

He said that more people wish to see changes with more female participation in the political process, adding that this has become a global trend.

Ong dismissed suggestions that Wanita MCA-initiated loose grouping for youths under 35 years of age - Beliawanis - would be made a separate entity from the women wing's fold.

He explained that Beliawanis was a branch initiated at all divisional levels.