Parliament must reassert its inviolability in the face of the arrest of MP for Pandan Rafizi Ramli within its precincts.

“It matters little whether Rafizi was arrested within the grounds of Parliament or just outside it; the very gesture represents a gratuitous insult to democracy and must not be allowed to stand,” said M Kulasegaran, MP for Ipoh Barat.

The DAP national vice-chair said he was heartened that speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia wants to investigate the arrest but he observed that the point about where exactly the arrest took place - within Parliament's grounds or just beyond it - was not germane to the issue.