MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the early departure of a fifth of the estimated 15,000 guests at an MCA mega dinner, as reported in a Chinese daily, was not a sign that the party was losing support in Johor.
According to a China Press report on Sunday, many began to leave when MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek gave his speech on Saturday.
“We organise a lot of these mega dinners and we receive a lot of support,” said Liow, who maintained that Johor was still the stronghold of his party.
“I, myself, was in Kampar (Perak) and there were more than 600 tables and more than 6,000 people there,” he said.
He said the people had braved the rain to attend the dinner.
Liow said if people left such an event it may have been to attend to some personal matter.
“It doesn’t mean that they showed no support to MCA. I don’t think that is an indication,” he said.
“Most importantly, we are passing a strong message to the public that we want stability over chaos. We want this country to continue to progress.”
He said stability was important for Malaysia to progress into a developed nation by 2020.
“We can see that in every part of the world, if the country is in chaos, it cannot develop,” he said.
-mmail.com
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ReplyDeleteVen. Dr Ashin Indaka from Myanmar charged rm400 per who want to be monk at SAMNAK SAMBODHI TAMAN DESA JAYA BUDDHIST TEMPLE...ANYONE GO THERE, MUST CAREFUL...THIS IS MAKE BUDDHIST SHAMEFUL...Buddha is never asks money from his students..a lot people unhappy with that cost..
We would like inform to all committees of SAMNAK SAMBODHI BUDDHIST TEMPLE, No: 19 Jalan 38 Taman Desa Jaya, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. There are so many Myanmar condemnations about when anyone wants to become the monks, who chief monk requests them to pay about RM400.00 per head.
This is one of crushing shame and exploitation because may be that cost high for Myanmar, also this is one kind of business system in Buddhist, all of us must think in correctly, Buddha went to became a monk with free of charge and he practiced to attain Enlightenment without any cent of dollar to spend, sometimes needed to referred from the Buddha times.
Buddhist Temple in Malaysia 100% supported by public. The committees of Temple, they worked as voluntary and take care of Temple with organized but in Temple not allowed to played politic because in Temple must be clean and welcome all everyone.
Recently, do bad and good must careful because everything's huge complaint in Internet, about Buddhist teaching a lot of at Internet, sometimes we can't tell lie to the others one. We must help Myanmar people as they came to Malaysia to work, earn money and save money for their family at home.
We are Malaysia Buddhist must help Myanmar Buddhist, not to cheated them because they came to our country to work, we must show our good quality and our good Buddhist. Not like some committees members cheated money Myanmar monks; this is very bad Malaysia Buddhist.
Hope YIP KUM FOOK (MCA GOMBAK) realizes himself, now many people know in what he done for Buddhist, Buddhist Kamma will attack to everyone, if they do bad or good.
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Born in Lumbini, Nepal, Siddhartha was destined to a luxurious life as a prince, had three palaces especially built for him. Siddhartha escaped his palace, accompanied by Channa aboard his horse Kanthaka, leaving behind this royal life to become a mendicant. Sitting under a banyan tree, now known as the Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya (Bihar, India), he vowed never to arise until he had found the Truth. After 49 days meditating, at the age of 35, he attained Enlightenment (Nirvana). Gautama, from then on, was known as the Buddha or "Awakened One." Buddha is also sometimes translated as "The Enlightened One." Often, he is referred to in Buddhism as Shakyamuni Buddha or "The Awakened One of the Shakya Clan."