After dropping a bombshell proposing that Gerakan quit the Barisan Nasional as UMNO had not learnt from the lessons of the March 8 “political tsunami” in continuing with its racist and communal politicking, Gerakan Wanita chief and deputy information minister Datuk Tan Lian Ho has done a somersault.
She was front-page Chinese newspaper headline banner news yesterday but within hours, she backtracked and clarified that the “quit BN’ call was not her suggestion but that of some Gerakan delegates.
Never mind that she had said yesterday that she was prepared to risk her post as deputy minister for speaking up, the question is why the somersault?
Backing her call yesterday, Gerakan national vice chairman and Perak Gerakan chief Datuk Chan Ko Youn said 80 per cent of the Gerakan delegates in Perak support the “quit BN’ call.
Gerakan Youth leaders have also told the press that at least half of the Gerakan Youth members support the party leaving the Barisan Nasional.
The last word yesterday came from the Deputy Umno President. As reported by Star “No truth to Gerakan pullout move, says Najib”, the Deputy Prime Minister said that Gerakan acting president Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon had confirmed that Gerakan has no plan to leave the BN coalition.
Tsu Koon is wearing the sackcloth but are there no more Dr. Toh Kin Woons in Gerakan, Wanita Gerakan and Gerakan Youth?