JOHOR BAHARU, May 30 – Seventeen members of the Gelang Patah MCA Division today resigned from their government posts in keeping with a party resolution not to have representatives in the government if the party fared badly in the last general election.
Division chairman Jason Teoh said three of them resigned as members of the Johor Baharu Tengah Municipal Council, five as village heads, one as a local government and housing officer, two as welfare officers and six as members of the visiting board of the Sultan Aminah Hospital and Sultan Ismail Hospital.
“The decision to give up the posts is in accordance with an MCA resolution to have no party representatives in the government following the poor performance of the party in the recent general election.
“We accept the outcome of the general election and adhere to the resolution. As such, I led my MCA colleagues who held government positions to resign en bloc,” he told reporters here.
Teoh said the service centre of the Gelang Patah MCA Division would remain open nevertheless and efforts would be made to serve the people.
Teoh said Gelang Patah constituents would have to learn to raise their problems with their new MP.
DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang had beaten former Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman in Gelang Patah in the 13th general election on May 5.
“Without government positions, we may not be as efficient as before. We will come up with other ways to serving the constituents,” he said.
– BERNAMA
