BUTTERWORTH: Penang MCA has sent a legal notice to Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, demanding an apology over his alleged derogatory and inflammatory remarks against the party.
Deputy state MCA chief Eng Hiap Boon said the party also wanted Lim to stop making unfounded remarks, which had angered the party’s grassroots.
“We have sent the A.R. Registered notice to Lim’s old house in Malacca to remind him that he is an outsider who has come to Penang.
“We have also sent similar notices to Lim’s present residence in George Town and to his office in Komtar,” he told a press conference at the Permatang Pauh MCA division office here yesterday.
Eng said Lim, who is DAP secretary-general, had allegedly described the MCA as a “Money Collecting Agency” and “Mau Cari Angpow”, making fun of the party’s acronym (MCA) at a dinner in Taman Dedap, Raja Uda, on Aug 30.
Eng said the phrase “Mau Cari Angpow” gave the impression that the party members were gangsters involved in collecting money from the people.
On MCA Wanita chief Tan Cheng Liang’s counter attack on the DAP with the phrase “Dapat Angpow”, Eng claimed Lim took that phrase in a positive note, saying it reflected DAP’s success in the March 2008 general election and subsequent by-elections.
Meanwhile, Tan said Lim should not forget that the MCA was one of the component parties that fought for the country’s independence.
“The party established the foundation for the settlement and development of the Chinese community in Malaysia. It also helped the Chinese, which includes Lim, to obtain citizenship besides providing the freedom to participate in politics, economy and education under the Constitution,” she said.
“How can you go to a non-governmental organisation function and say such things when we (the MCA) do not have a platform to rebut?”
Lim’s special assistant Wong Kim Fei, when contacted, said Lim was away in Singapore.
He said his office had yet to receive the legal notice at press time.
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