DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke will step down as the party’s Negeri Sembilan chair after 22 years, citing his failure to defend the Chennah state seat and the party’s loss in its stronghold of Repah during the recent Negeri Sembilan polls.

Insisting that there was no pressure on him to relinquish the party’s state post, Loke described the move as his personal decision aimed at handing over the reins to a new leadership.

“That is my...