Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) has dismissed any suggestion its former member Larry Sng Wei Shien be a BN direct candidate for the Pelagus seat in the coming state election.

Such suggestion was inapplicable and unacceptable as Pelagus was clearly and traditionally a PRS constituency, said PRS information chief Wilson Nyabong.

larry sng "There were precedents in the Belaga state and Mambong parliamentary seats as those seats were claimed by other BN component parties.

"But, no BN party is claiming Pelagus," he told reporters in Sibu to dispel rumours that Sng ( right ), an assistant minister in the Chief Minister's Department, was defending the seat on such arrangement.

Wilson said the party had more or less identified Sng's replacement.

"We have explained to the voters in the constituency that Larry is no longer a party member so he cannot represent it or the BN when his term expires.

"They, especially the women voters, understand this and have pledged to support only PRS/BN-sanctioned candidate," he said.

On Sng's action in maintaining he is still the BN representative, Wilson said as of now, he was still so as he was still serving his term as assistant minister and the state legislative assembly had yet to be dissolved.

On another matter, he said PRS would fight groups and individuals out to destabilise the party.

This included planting candidates to contest against its official candidates, especially in the Pelagus and Ngemah state seats.

- Bernama