Renewed calls from outsiders for Gerakan Penang chief Dr Teng Hock Nan to resign from his post have rattled party leaders.

NONE Parti Cinta Malaysia (PCM) vice-chief Huan Cheng Guan's latest call for Hock Nan to be replaced has elicited an angry response from his counterpart in Gerakan, Dr Lim Boon Han.

Lim, who is the party's state vice-chief, has chided Huan ( right ) for being ‘wilful and interfering', in asking for Hock Nan to throw in in the towel.

He said Huan should know that Hock Nan was duly elected by party delegates and it would be "undemocratic, unethical and morally wrong" to go against their wishes.

He added that party members and leaders knew what to do to rejuvenate the party.

"Huan should mind his own business. He should stop being a keh po chi (busybody), especially when he has left Gerakan.

"He should spend more time taking care of his new party," Lim advised the former Gerakan state vice-chief.

 Internal matters

Lim, who is BN coordinator for Bukit Tengah, said Huan should reserve his comments on Gerakan's internal matters and stop trying to pick a quarrel with its members.

Lim was referring to his former comrade's media statement on Wednesday that Hock Nan should be replaced if Gerakan was serious about recapturing Penang.

penang gerakan egm 101010 teng chang yeow Huan had suggested that the party's secretary-general Teng Chang Yeow ( right ) be made the state chief.

He justified his choice by saying that "Chang Yeow is young and capable of taking on DAP national secretary-general and Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and Pakatan Rakyat".

Chang Yeow was former Penang Gerakan Youth chief and a former state executive councillor.

However Huan, who departed from Gerakan in 2009 to join PCM was not the only 'outsider' who issued the controversial request to see the demise of leaders like Hock Nan, whose political career spanned 37 years.

Former Gerakan Youth leader and Nibong Tebal MP Tan Tee Beng had also demanded for president Koh Tsu Koon to be removed as a minister and party chief if the party wanted to recapture Penang.

Tan later joined PKR and left the Pakatan component last year to become an independent parliamentarian. He has since joined Kita (Parti Kesejahteraan Insan Tanah Air), led by Zaid Ibrahim.

Meanwhile, Hock Nan responded to his detractors by saying that Gerakan members knew why their leaders remained in the party.

"We know what to do and they know why we continue to stay in the party. We also know when it's time to leave," said Hock Nan, who was elected state chief in 2008.

"The party does not need to listen to outsiders who merely want to tell party leaders what to do," added the party veteran, who last year barely scraped through a no-confidence motion against him.