UMNO is no bully in BN? Then why the instant removal of the poll on MCA Presidentï¿½s blog where 78.1 per cent or 2409 out of 3084 persons polled want MCA out of Barisan Nasional!

Media Statement (2) by Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 13^th June 2009:

UMNO is no bully in BN? Then why the instant removal of the poll on MCA Presidentï¿½s blog where 78.1 per cent or 2409 out of 3084 persons polled want MCA out of Barisan Nasional!

The instant removal of the poll ï¿½Should MCA leave BNï¿½ on the blog of the MCA President Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat where 78.1 per cent or 2,409 out of 3,084 persons polled want MCA out of the Barisan Nasional reminds me of last Octoberï¿½s MCA General Assembly.

In his opening speech, the then Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi denied that UMNO was a ï¿½bullyï¿½ party in the Barisan Nasional.

Abdullahï¿½s denial, responding to the earlier speech of the outgoing MCA President, Tan Sri Ong Ka Tingï¿½s ï¿½Umno is bully in Barisan Nasionalï¿½, made the newspaper frontpage headlines like ï¿½UMNO IS NO BULLYï¿½ (New Sunday Times 19.10.08) and ï¿½Umno bukan pembuli: PMï¿½ (Berita Minggu).

If UMNO is no bully in BN, then why the instant removal of the poll ï¿½Should MCA leave BNï¿½ on MCA Presidentï¿½s blog immediately after the UMNO President, Datuk Seri Najib Razak expressed his displeasure at such a poll in the MCA Presidentï¿½s blog?

Although Najib was very diplomatic, saying that the MCA Presidentï¿½s online poll ï¿½Should MCA leave BNï¿½ was ï¿½an academic exerciseï¿½ and that ï¿½As far as I am concerned, MCA has no intention of leaving the BNï¿½, there can be no mistaking of his displeasure.

What have both Najib and Ong to say about the one-sided result in the poll, with 78.1 per cent or 2,409 out of 3,084 persons polled want MCA out of Barisan Nasional?

The latest poll results were published in todayï¿½s Utusan Malaysia before the poll was unceremoniously removed from Ongï¿½s blog!

*Lim Kit Siang, DAP Parliamentary leader & MP for Ipoh Timor