MCA, MIC open to new alliance after Umno’s ‘breach of unity’
MIC president S.A. Vigneswaran and MCA president Wee Ka Siong with party leaders at a meeting today, in which the two parties agreed to explore new alliances. – March 4, 2019.
MCA and MIC are exploring their political options following recent racial remarks by Barisan Nasional secretary-general Nazri Aziz during the Semenyih by-election campaign. “When there is no mutual respect and there is breach of unity within the component parties of BN, the very foundations of BN have been challenged and threatened,” said MCA president Wee Ka Siong and MIC president S.A. Vigneswaran in a joint statement today following a meeting.
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