Karpal is right... about Chua Soi Lek

It was only last week Lim Kit Siang asked PM Najib to give Ghani Othman a Cabinet position by appointing him a senator, describing his vanquished opponent for Gelang Patah parliamentary seat as 'a good man who had made many contributions to Johor'.

And yesterday, DAP chairman Karpal Singh for the first time ever came to Chua Soi Lek's defense by saying the MCA president should not take the blame alone for the poor showing in the just concluded 13th general election.

Coming to Dr Chua’s defence, Karpal noted that it had not been easy for the “embattled and beleaguered” MCA president to have risen from his past scandal to lead a troubled party through the country’s toughest electoral battle yet. 
“Political vultures who are now hovering around him baying for his blood should realise [the] dismal performance of the MCA should not be brought to bear on the shoulders of Dr Chua alone. 
“The entire MCA leadership should be man enough to take the blame. 
“Had the MCA performed well in the elections, Dr Chua would have been hailed a hero by these very political vultures. Success has many fathers. Failure is a lonely orphan,” Karpal wrote in a statement.

It was a rare statement by any DAP leaders on MCA, its political foe over the past 56 years. However, I personally agree (also for the first time) with Karpal - that the entire MCA and Barisan Nasional should be held responsible.

“He should be left alone to pick up the bits and pieces of his political life which is now in shatters for which he should not be made to take fully the blame. 
“A man in his plight should not be allowed to be exploited by his enemies,” the Bukit Gelugor MP said when making his case for Dr Chua to be given the chance to prepare MCA for the party elections. 
Earlier in his statement, Karpal said that Dr Chua had “tried his best to steer the MCA” from its dismal performance in Election 2008, noting that it was not an “easy task”. 
He also gave Dr Chua credit for rising from the “abyss” and winning the MCA presidency post despite a scandal involving a sex video...

But Dr Chua has made it final. He will step down soon and MCA will not take up any Cabinet post.

Not only me. Many have expressed hope that he will reverse the decision (about the Cabinet) and help strengthen Barisan Nasional again.

A Malaysian Cabinet without representatives from MCA or MIC or other component parties will not reflect a true Malaysia.