Last Updated: 3:53pm, Oct 02, 2013

PETALING JAYA (Oct 2): Former DAP Senai assemblyman Ong Kow Meng blames the death of former Mengkibol assemblyman Ng Lam Hua on party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.

Ng was dropped from the DAP candidate list in the 13th general election.

Oriental Daily News quoted Ong as saying that Lim promised Ng another constituency after he was dropped from the Mengkibol state seat.

But Lim did not keep his promise and let Ng down, Ong told reporters at his comrade's wake.

Ong said: "Ng felt that he had been cheated and fooled by the central leaders. He became morose out of disappointment and anger."

Ng's gloom had aggravated his heart condition, which resulted in his death, Ong added.

Ng had died of a heart attack in his Kluang home on Sept 29 which was incidentally, the date of the DAP's Special Congress at which a re-elections was held in Petaling Jaya.

"In my personal view, Ng's death has something to do with his failure to be appointed as a candidate. Before the announcement was made, Ng was confident that he secured a chance to be re-appointed as a candidate."

Ong, who is also DAP Johor vice chairman, accused the party of being unfair and "illogical" in dropping three lawyers in previous GE, including Ng, himself and DAP Segamat branch chairman Pang Hok Liong.

Complaining that the party leadership favoured young members and abandoned party veterans, he said, it was unfair as the veterans worked quietly over the years.

Sin Chew Daily had earlier quoted Ng's young brother Lam Swa as saying, Ng loved DAP so much that he refused to leave the party despite being dropped from the candidate list.

However the central leaders never appreciated his contributions, said Lam Swa, who told the daily he himself left the party after his brother's death.

MCA EGM may fall on Oct 19 or 20

The MCA's extraordinary general meeting (EGM) is expected to fall on Oct 19 or 20, China Press reported.

The daily was told that state governments which have reserved some executive councillor (exco) posts for MCA had warned the party to fill the vacancies before December, failing which the offers will be retracted.

Hence, if it is in MCA's plan to revoke the 'no-government-post' at its annual general meeting, scheduled for Dec 22, it would be too late.

Holding an EGM before the AGM to revoke the resolution is the only way to solve the problem, a source told China Press.

If the requisition for an EGM is passed in the central committee meeting, the EGM will likely be held on Oct 19 or 20, the daily was told.

The daily was told that the state governments which had set the deadline include Perak, Kedah and Johor. Other states had a full exco line-up.

Twenty MCA central committee members from president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek's camp handed in a requisition letter to the party headquarters two days ago, seeking to hold an EGM to censure Liow and revoke the "no-government-post" resolution passed at the 2011 and 2012 AGM.

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