First three MCA Presidents, Tan Cheng Lock, Lim Chong Eu and Tan Siew Sin, must be turning in their graves at the new MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance in Balakong by-election to cause downfall of Pakatan Harapan government before 15GE

The first three MCA Presidents, Tun Tan Cheng Lock, Tun Dr. Lim Chong Eu and Tun Tan Siew Sin, must be turning in their graves at the new MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance in the Balakong by-election to cause the downfall of Pakatan Harapan government before the 15th General Election so as restore the regime of corruption, abuses of power and mediocrity of the past.

The three questions uppermost in Malaysian minds are:

Firstly, why PAS wants to help the MCA in the Balakong by-election.

During the May 9 general election, the winning candidate from DAP and Pakatan Harapan Eddie Ng polled 41,768 votes while the PAS candidate polled 6,230 votes and the MCA candidate polled 5,874.

What is most noteworthy is that the PAS candidate got more votes than the MCA candidate, although both lost their deposits.

Is the MCA candidate fighting to retain his deposit in the by-election?

But the most pertinent question is why the PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang should be worried that the MCA candidate might lose his deposit in the by-election without PAS help, to the extent of ordering his “big guns” like the PAS Secretary-General to campaign for the MCA in the by-election?

Is this the sign of an MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance shaping up in post-14GE Malaysian politics?

Secondly, why is MCA getting help from UMNO leaders who are declaring that after the 14GE, the Malays have lost political power, that the DAP is the enemy of the Malays and Islam and that DAP wanted to abolish the Malay Sultans and set up a republic – taking the irresponsible and dangerous politics of race, religion, hate, fear and lies to an even more extreme extent than before the last general elections?

Does MCA leaders agree with the lies and falsehoods being churned out the by the UMNO leaders? Dare MCA leaders tell to the UMNO leaders to stop telling lies or to ban them from MCA ceramahs in the Balakong by-election?

How can MCA leaders seek the help of these UMNO leaders who are claiming that the Malays have lost political power and yet at the same time accuse the DAP of selling out the rights and interests of the Malaysian Chinese?

Thirdly, why is MCA so desperate that it has to seek help from PAS to avoid losing deposit in the Balakong by-election?

Apart from the first three MCA Presidents, Tun Tan Cheng Lock, Tun Dr. Lim Chong Eu and Tun Tan Siew Sin, who are turning in their graves at the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance, there are six other MCA Presidents who are still living and in our midst.

Do they endorse the MCA President, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai in striking the MCA/UMNO/PAS unholy alliance in the Balakong by-election?

It will be interesting to hear from these still-living former MCA Presidents.

Lim Kit Siang MP for Iskandar Puteri