MCA Youth chief Chong Sin Woon today trained his guns against former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad for labelling MCA as a "chauvinist party", a label he once reserved for the DAP.

Chong noted that Mahathir had claimed MCA was a chauvinist party because its anthem was in Chinese compared to the DAP, which has its anthem in the Malay language.

However, Chong said a key distinction between MCA and DAP was that the former does not inflame racial sentiments.

Chong cited allegedly inflammatory speeches by DAP leaders such as Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Nga Kor Ming...