My Manifesto

MANIFESTO The result of the 13th General Election had clearly shown that the Chinese community has rejected the Party MCA and the Party members felt extremely humiliated by the defeat. The worst is, some members had abandoned the Party, some don’t even dare to admit that they are MCA members simply because they feel so shameful. It’s time we stand up and be respected. We need to redeem our honour and regain the trust and support of the people, especially the Chinese community. Therefore, the Party and its leadership need to be revamped in order to move forward. As we enter into this Party’s election, it’s time for us to decide the future of the Party and its leadership, which lies in your hands as members of the Party. The power to decide the leadership of the Party by the members is what free and fair election is all about. Let’s us all work together to determine the future of the Party and the Chinese community. In the next 3 years, I pledge to commit the followings: 1. PARTY AFFAIRS It has been a desire of the members and the Chinese community that the position of President be elected directly by the members. In order to enhance the democratization of the Party, its election mechanism definitely need to be revamped. Therefore, I would commit to propose the followings: (a) The position of the President and Deputy President must be elected directly by the Presidential Elector, of which every member who wishes to participate in the Presidential Election MUST first be registered as “the Presidential Elector”. This is to ensure that the Party’s members continue to have interest on the Party’s affairs and to find out the total number of active and interested members in the membership roll. (b) State Liaison Committee must be elected by the State Delegates, of which they are elected by the Branch Assembly. (c) The Divisional Delegates, the State Delegates and Central Delegates must be elected at Branch level and must be enlarged to a figure, which representing at least 10% of the general membership of all levels. This is also to curb money politics and to ensure a better representation as well as the ability of the Party’s leadership to engage with more members. With the revamp of the Party’s election mechanism, hopefully the Party will regain the trust and support of the people. It will also make the Party leadership more transparent and accountable to the members. 2. PARTY ASSETS Party assets is the back bone of the Party, at the same time it can also destroy the Party. Therefore, it is desirable that the Party’s affairs and assets must be managed independently from each other to avoid being abused and manipulated in favour of a few sociopathic Party leaders. Therefore, I would commit to propose that the Party assets be managed transparently, accountably and systematically by an independent trustees to be appointed by the Central Committee members and not President alone. 3. OPPORTUNITY TO EARN EXTRA INCOME The rising cost of living in the city of Kuala Lumpur is inevitable and therefore, the MCA Bandar Tun Razak Division should endeavour to assist its members by organizing programmes to improve their living skills and abilities to earn extra or supplemental income. The ultimate aim is to encourage interaction and engagement among Party’s members in order to regain their trust and confidence. In order to achieve the above I would commit to propose to set up the following Bureaus: a) Entrepreneur Development Bureau This is to provide training and skills to the members in specific fields which will enable them to earn extra income and/or supplemental income during their free time. This includes providing knowledge, skills and trainings to members who are interested to venture into investment in property and securities. In addition, a co-operative society will be set up to provide opportunities to members to conduct and manage the business as well as to earn supplemental income. b) Professional Development for Youth Bureau This is to provide opportunities for young members to enhance their knowledge and skills that will assist them in self enrichment and personal development. Programmes will focus on informations related to a wide cross-section of businesses and professions at the same time promote high ethical working standard. Through this Bureau, I will endeavour to recruit more Youth to join the Party as well as help them to enhance their personal growth and development. 4. EDUCATION Education is the utmost important area to enhance a nation’s development and progress. In this Division, we already set up an education foundation called Yayasan Pendidikan Kawasan Bandar Tun Razak, which had in the past carried out various educational programmes for the benefit of the people in the Division and these will be continued for the next 3 years. In addition, I will also set up an Education Centre which will serve as a permanent premise for the Yayasan to carry out its planned programmes. The Education Centre will plan to conduct a long term Oriental Moral Study Programme for primary and secondary students to curb the moral decay in the society, especially among the Chinese youth. 5. WELFARE Historically, MCA was formed to take care of the welfare of the Chinese community in Malaya and thereafter evolved into a political party. Therefore, MCA should not and cannot forget its root of establishment and we must re-establish this noble objective, which is to take care of the welfare of the Chinese community. In order to achieve this, I would commit to establish a Welfare Centre in the Division, which will be handling the followings: (a) to assist the community to apply for assistance on the programmes that will benefit the Malaysians which are undertake by the Jabatan Kebajikan Malaysia, as well as to assist patients to apply exemption or reduction of their medical fees at Government’s Hospitals. (b) to establish a welfare programme, “One Meal A Day” , a sponsored programme in aid of the poor and needy of the Chinese community . In this Division, there are a lot of poor families, which need assistance and aids from the community. (c) to organize a long term fund raising charitable projects to finance the Division’s welfare programmes i.e. “One Meal A Day” programme. In order to ensure success of the welfare programmes, the Division will establish a non-member volunteers squad to carry out its’ welfare programmes for the benefit of the Chinese community. This is to fulfill the aspiration of some volunteers who do not wish to join a political party. 6. RELIGION It is a challenge for non-Muslim to obtain land to build places of worship, especially in Kuala Lumpur due to scarcity of land. In 2012, the Federal Government had approved a piece of land measuring approximately 2 acres to build 6 Chinese and Buddhist Temples, of which 4 temples are from Bandar Tun Razak Parliament Constituency. This land is located beside SJKC Naam Kheung. At present, DBKL has approved the development plan for Amitabha Temple and Xian Fa Temple, of which the construction works already commenced and expected to complete by September 2014. Besides, I would commit to ensure that the aforesaid 4 temples be fully constructed within the next 3 years and will continue to assist the non-Muslim to apply and obtain land from the Federal Government to build places of worship. 7. PUBLIC SERVICE AND COMPLAINT A continuity of the Service Centre is a must for our Division. We must ensure that our Service Centre is operated properly, efficiently, systematically and professionally in order to carry out its obligations and services to the people. A revamp of our Service Centre is imminent. In addition, I would commit to establish a Mobile Service Centre to serve the people from place to place on a periodical basis within the Division. CONCLUSION With the above planned programmes aimed to be carried out in the next 3 years and along with the commitments that I pledged, I shall strive my best together with my team to regain the trust and support of the people in Bandar Tun Razak (“BTR”) Parliament Constituency and win back the BTR Parliament seat in the coming general election. Let us all work together for the benefits and betterment of the people. Looking forward to your support.