First, he was shocked to learn that the MCA was telling voters in Kuala Kangsar that had the late Kuala Kangsar MP Wan Mohammad Khair-il Wan Ahmad been alive, he would have opposed PAS President Hadi Awang’s hudud bill.
The second, he said, was a statement by Wanita MCA chief Heng Seai Kie that Minister Azalina Othman Said did not represent the Barisan Nasional when she moved the ministerial motion in Parliament on May 26 to fast-track Hadi’s motion.
Lim said the MCA claimed that if the late MP was still alive he would not have agreed with Hadi’s Private Member’s Bill or with Azalina for her motion of fast-tracking the Bill on the last day of Parliament on May 26.
The claim, according to Lim who is also Gelang Patah MP, was in a letter by MCA Perak Chairman Mah Hang Soon which appeared in the June edition of the publication “Perak View”, distributed in Kuala Kangsar by the MCA by-election campaign team.
Lim wondered whether Mah had sought permission from Mastura Mohd Yazid to use her late husband’s name to flog the party’s position on the Bill.
“As Mastura is now Umno/Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate for the Kuala Kangsar by-election, has she given him the assurance that if elected, she will, like her late husband, oppose Hadi’s hudud Bill as well as oppose any ministerial motion to ‘fast-track’ Hadi’s motion?”
Lim said Heng’s statement in Kuala Kangsar that Azalina did not represent the BN when she moved the ministerial motion in Parliament to fast-track Hadi’s motion, had “come as a surprise all-round.”
Pointing out that the people had always been told that the government in Putrajaya was BN and not Umno and that ministers sat in Parliament representing the ruling coalition, not the main coalition party, Lim said: “The Wanita MCA chief should, therefore, call for the sacking of Azalina from the Cabinet.
“It appears that Azalina had moved the ministerial motion as an Umno minister, committing a gross breach of trust to act as a BN minister in reflecting the views of all component parties in the coalition.”
What was also befuddling, Lim added, was Heng’s claim that “MCA’s conscience was clear as it had not betrayed the Chinese community”. He said the Chinese community had lost confidence in the MCA.