Gerakan secretary-general Liang Teck Meng said Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng was the one who tried to defame him first in their dispute over the Penang water tariff issue.

“It is important to note that it was Lim who first tried to defame me by naming me and saying that I was signalling that the federal government wants to force Penang to raise water rates.

“Lim had pretty much indicated there was such a defamation in his press statement where the title started with ‘Liang Teck Meng should just sue me for defamation’,” he said in a statement today...