Founding PKR member joins MCA

Published: Tuesday January 25, 2011 MYT 5:28:00 PM
Founding PKR member joins MCA

LABIS: A founding member of the PKR tore a replica of the party's membership card in a symbolic gesture of breaking away from the party and pledging his support to Barisan Nasional.

Ng Lum Yong, 49, tore the card that bore PKR membership number 0000012 and, at the same time, submitted an application form to be an MCA member to party president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek.

Ng, who joined the PKR in 1999, said he quit because Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was “leading the party to nowhere.”

He pledged to lead some 1,000 PKR members from mostly Selangor, Perak, Penang and Sabah to join the MCA by March.

Wearing a white shirt with the 1Malaysia logo, Ng, a businessman from Kuala Lumpur, said he was joining the MCA because of his confidence in the leadership of Dr Chua and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

“I have been following the two leaders via their websites and Facebook,” he told a press conference to announce his resignation from the PKR.

Present was former PKR Youth chief Ezam Mohd Nor, now an Umno campaigner.

Dr Chua said that since he became party president on March 28 last year, more than 17,300 people had joined the MCA and 60% of them were below 40.

Regarding PKR members who had left their party, Dr Chua said the fact that 13 elected representatives had quit the party showed that the leadership was no longer in control.

“It shows that members are frustrated and had lost confidence in the leadership,” he added.