A DAP parliamentarian wants heads to roll after the homeless in Kuala Lumpur were rounded up and then abandoned in the outskirts of Rawang and along the Karak Highway.

"I hereby urge that those responsible for issuing the despicable orders to be fired immediately, and handed over to police for endangering the lives of the city's unfortunates by marooning them along the highways in the dark," Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng said in a statement.

Lim was referring to reports quoting several homeless persons that more than 30 of them were rounded up by parties unknown, loaded into lorries belonging to the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), then transported to remote areas outside the city limits and abandoned there.

Some of the homeless described that they were told to get off in Rawang and along the Karak Highway.

DBKL said today it was not responsible for the round-up, but admitted that its lorries and personnel were used as logistical support for the National Anti-Drugs Agency, the federal agency that conducted the operation.

"This sad tale of the homeless being rounded up and chased out of Kuala Lumpur has raised many questions, especially with the magnificent homeless transit shelter on Jalan Pahang.

"Why were the homeless shuttled out of Kuala Lumpur into Selangor? Is this an attempt to transfer one's own problem to someone else?" asked Lim.

With the coming of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, Lim argued that this was not in line with the teachings of Islam and called on all Muslims to understand the sufferings of the less fortunate.

He also said that foreigners may see the action as madness, considering that Malaysia has just chartered private jets to bring in Syrian refugees and house them, but herds its own unfortunate citizens into trucks and abandon them.

"KL Mayor Mohd Amin Nordin Abd Aziz must take stern action over this inhumane treatment (of the homeless) and ensure that it does not happen again," Lim added.