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We need MCA Posted: 06 May 2013 09:31 PM PDT Barisan Nasional must remain intact. The new Cabinet under PM Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak will see a composition of Umno, MCA, MIC, Gerakan and all parties, including from Sabah and Sarawak. No discount, not haggling... and no blame game! Malaysians would still want to see that same and old Cabinet structure that had led the nation to what it is today. Umno alone cannot rule the country. MCA 'poor showing' in the 12th and 13th general election is not for the party to ponder alone. Barisan Nasional is responsible in mending it within the scope of cooperation that has been established since before and after Independence. The decision by MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek not to defend his post in the party election later this year is his personal decision but MCA has to stay put with BN, just like other component parties. Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar has urged the MCA to reconsider the decision to withdraw its participation in the government following the party's disastrous performance in the general election. The Rembau MP also cautioned certain voices within the party to stop echoing calls for BN to form a government without representatives from the community since the voters have ceased supporting the party. He said Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak should also persuade them to remain in the government administration as part of his reconciliation plan to nurse the wound caused by the voters' decision to shun the party. MCA has to remain relevant. In the next general election, four or five years from now, BN will need all the strength and push to retain power and MCA must be there to take on the opposition onslaught together. I don't care what other journalists, bloggers and Malaysians think about it but the country must be managed by the moderates in Umno, MCA, MIC and others if stability and progress are to be fully-attained. Veteran journo Azman Ujang wrote in The Sun Daily: The question now is, should Najib be bound by this MCA's internal electoral strategy that had gone awry when he assembles his new cabinet, expected over the next few days? What kind of a cabinet is it if it does not have a minister from MCA for the first time ever, and a 1Malaysia Cabinet at that? All the six Chinese candidates who contested under the Sarawak United Peoples Party (SUPP) ticket, the other Chinese-based party in BN, also lost to their DAP opponents. The cabinet would also be quite un-Malaysian without a Chinese minister. Now the MCA is still left with seven winning MPs, including incumbent Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai and Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong, among others, who could fill up the MCA's usual quota of four ministers. I can't agree more, bro Azman. It will be an 'un-Malaysian' Cabinet with only one Chinese minister from MCA and another from MIC. It will also not reflect the true spirit of BN composition. To Dr Chua and members of MCA, the result of the 13th GE is for the entire BN to accept as a team, and not for any individual party to blame. We win some, we lose some but such a cooperation must go on as agreed upon by the founding fathers of Merdeka.

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