Party chiefs, ministers asked me to hop parties, claims Batu MP

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KUALA LUMPUR: P Prabakaran (PH-Batu) claims that numerous senior politicians including the heads of political parties and ministers had approached him to defect from Pakatan Harapan during the lockdown in 2020.

The PKR MP told the Dewan Rakyat that their attempts to coax him to join the government bloc had failed, adding that he had more “honour and principles” than the 39 MPs who had hopped parties since 2018.

“During the lockdown (in 2020), many ministers, deputy ministers, politicians and party presidents approached me to hop over there (the government bloc).

“They thought that, as the youngest MP, I had no principles or political direction. They thought they could influence me into hopping to the government bloc, but they failed.

“There was a politician who told me: ‘What government-linked company (GLC) do you want? You choose, I can give.’”

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