In the latest round of verbal sparring that follows the publication of ex-Bukit Bintang MP Lee Lam Thye’s book, veteran leader Lim Kit Siang has said that he just learned that some young DAP leaders did ask Lee to step aside from the constituency.

“I have just learnt that young DAP leaders had met Lam Thye before the 1990 general election to ask him to contest elsewhere instead of in Bukit Bintang, but these suggestions were not on behalf of the party leadership.