MELAKA: MCA will be launching a foundation in honour of its first president, the late Tun Tan Cheng Lock.
MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat said the foundation would look into the welfare of the needy irrespective of ethnicity.
Besides this, he said, the party would also be naming one of the floors of its headquarters, Wisma MCA in Kuala Lumpur, after him.
Ong told this to reporters after making a visit to Cheng Lock’s grave at the Kampung Musai Chinese cemetery here yesterday.
He was accompanied by other top MCA leaders including deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek.
Besides paying their respects to Cheng Lock, the leaders also did the same for Cheng Lock’s son, the late Tun Tan Siew Sin, whose grave lies besides his father’s.
Siew Sin had also been a president of the MCA.
Ong further vowed to continue with the vision the two late leaders had for MCA and added that the party would redouble its efforts in this direction taking into consideration the changed times. — Bernama