Tee Keat to remain active in politics

The best MP Pandan people will ever get - our beloved YB Dato' Sri Ong Tee Keat 

 - no one can be a better Pandan MP nor can anyone understand what Pandan wants better than OTK. Even if he stands Independent, he will still win the constituency seat. Pandan is not a sure-win seat just because OTK was the ONLY MCA MP who won in Selangor. He won because of OTK, because of his track records, because of his deeds and because he is the MP for Pandan people...

Tee Keat to remain active in politics
(theSun July 19, 2010 page 3)

FORMER MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat has no plans to retire from politics despite losing the presidential contest in the party polls in March.

Unlike his predecessors who opted out of active politics after giving up the party top post, Ong has been doing a log of legwork in and outside his Pandan parliamentary
constituency and warns that he may have to seek a new platform to continue his political journey should he be dropped from the Barisan Nasional candidates list in the next general election.

“If I am dropped (from BN’s candidates list) in the coming general election, then it is not me who forsake the BN or MCA, I will make other arrangements,” he told Oriental Daily News in an interview published on Saturday.

He admitted that he had been approached by lobbyists from other political parties before and after the party elections.

Asked if he opted to remain in MCA because he did not want to be unfaithful to the party, he quipped
that he would have to watch the 1969 Chinese movie Jilted or Fu Xin De Ren (The Man with the Unfaithful Heart) again to learn how to become a “jilter”.

For the former party chief, life goes on as usual 100 days after losing the No. 1 post. In fact, he is working harder than before in serving his constituency and meeting Chinese groups all over the peninsula.

Asked if he was laying the groundwork for the next general election, he said that apart from people outside the party, no one in the party dared to invite him to meet them now that he is no longer in power.

Ong foresaw that he would not be fielded again in Pandan in the next elections, and said talk was rife that
MCA vice-president Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chai would move to defend the Pandan seat.