This is the message Umno Supreme Council member Nur Jazlan Mohamed has for Gerakan President Mah Siew Kong following the latter’s recent statement that Chinese votes would swing back to the DAP due to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s corruption trial.
Nur Jazlan told FMT that not all Chinese were obsessed with Lim, nor did all of them blindly follow the DAP secretary-general.
The deputy home minister said the community was capable of making decisions on its own as to whom they wanted to support, adding that in the past, the community had withdrawn its support for the Barisan Nasional when they felt they wanted change.
“Mah and Gerakan should not use Lim’s corruption trial as an excuse for not being able to win back Chinese support.
“They should focus on winning back support for the party from the community.”
MIC Youth Chief C Sivarraajh said while Gerakan and MCA were in a good position to gauge the Chinese sentiment on the issue, he believed there were many people who would see the issue without a political bias.
“There are many mature and unbiased people who believe what is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong,” he told FMT
“The Chinese community will support anything to protect our country from corruption and abuse of power.”
He said Lim and the Opposition, as a whole, should not politicise the issue of his trial if he was innocent and urged all parties to wait for the trial to be concluded.
Meanwhile, MCA Youth Chief Chong Sin Woon told FMT that the case should not be seen through political lenses by any party as it was a corruption trial.
He said the courts would decide on the case and the truth would prevail, adding that if people continued to politicise the case, then the truth would never be discovered.
On Sunday, Mah, who is the Teluk Intan MP, said voters had backed BN in recent elections, but Lim’s case, in which he faces criminal charges of corruption and abuse of power, would result in another swing towards the DAP.
He lamented that the people’s sentiments were not favourable to Penang Gerakan now and that the party was “stuck”.