DAP Negri Sembilan chairman Loke Siew Fook said here today that its candidates contesting in the parliamentary and state seats in the March 8 general election have been asked to make a pledge to prevent them from leaving the party after winning the election.

The move was taken in order to avoid the incident where former DAP Bahau state assemblyman Lim Fui Ming left the party and handed over the Bahau seat to Barisan Nasional(BN)last year.

The pledge stated that if a candidate won a parliamentary or state seat and wanted to leave the party, they agreed to relinquish their posts in the party.

Loke said that the state DAP might be the first to implement such a move.

He said that even if the Bahau representative did not leave DAP, the pledge taking ceremony would still be carried out as part of the DAP Negri Sembilan’s policy which was approved at the party’s state meeting in 2006.
“Even before Lim Fui Ming, there has been other DAP members who have left the party but the situation becomes more critical after Lim left,” he told reporters here today after naming the party’s candidates.

Loke took the pledge first followed by the other 12 candidates. — BERNAMA