Kedah Gerakan Youth chief Tan Keng Liang has dismissed Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng's attempt to meet Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak over the local elections issue as pre-mature.

He advised Lim to first meet with his superior, PR  de facto leader  Anwar Ibrahim over their coalition's stand on local government elections before meeting the prime minister.

Tan said in a statement today that a pre-mature meeting with the prime minister would be construed as a politically motivated attempt to absolve PR from fulfilling their pledge to hold such polls in their states.

He was referring to a recent announcement where PAS said that it was not interested in implementing local government elections in Kedah.

While lauding Lim's move to implement local elections in Penang, Tan has been on the offensive over PR's failure to achieve a unified stand on the issue.

"Lim should be reminded that the pledge to hold local government elections was made by the PR and not just the DAP," said the statement.

On March 6, Lim said that the Penang government had submitted a   to the Election Commission asking it to conduct local elections for its two municipalities.

A day later the Selangor government announced that it would follow suit, however their PAS counterparts were less than enthusiastic about the whole idea.