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Kulasegaran, who is also Ipoh Barat MP, said that the party had told their assemblymen that if they wanted to change their political party, they must resign to allow for a by-election.
His comments came in the wake of alleged offers from various Barisan Nasional component parties to the DAP representatives to switch camps.
“The people gave us the mandate and we must live up to it,” Kulasegaran told reporters after Tronoh assemblyman V. Sivakumar lodged a report at the Ipoh police district police yesterday.

Invitations via SMS: Buntong assemblyman A. Sivasubramaniam (right) and Sivakumar showing the SMSes they received in Ipoh.

Sivakumar claimed that he had been deluged with offers to change political parties since the March 8 general election.
“They initially offered me RM65mil cash and a state executive councillor post but it drop to RM10mil with a state exco post yesterday (Saturday),” he said.

Sivakumar told reporters here yesterday that not only was he harassed over the phone and through SMSes, some quarters claiming to be supporters of some political parties even went to his house to persuade him.