Gerakan Youth chief Tan Keng Liang's remark that he’ll "never join a party led by a sexual offender" has drawn sharp criticisms from his rival in PKR.

Tan, a lawyer based in Kedah, was then responding to former Umno deputy minister Saifuddin Abdullah’s entry into PKR yesterday, hitting at the party’s de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim who is serving a five-year sentence in Sungai Buloh prison for a sodomy conviction.