DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang has refuted claims that his party is playing the race card in its expression of interest for “one of three” parliamentary seats in the city of Johor Baru – Johor Baru, Pasir Gudang and Tebrau.

Lim came under fire yesterday from Tebrau PKR chief Steven Choong, who claimed DAP had done little work in the constituency, and questioned if Chinese-majority seats had to be given to DAP by virtue of it being a “Chinese-majority party".

PKR had contested against BN in all three constituencies in 2013 and lost.

“The answer is a triple negative – ‘No’ to (the claim that) DAP should get a Chinese-majority seat ‘by virtue of being a Chinese party’. ‘No’ to DAP being a Chinese party.

"And ‘No’ to (the claim that) any one of the three parliamentary seats in Johor Baru are Chinese-majority seats,” said the DAP stalwart in a statement today...