Berapit DAP rep to stay out of race


BUKIT MERTAJAM: DAP’s Bera­pit assemblyman Lydia Ong Kok Fooi has decided to call it a day and will not be contesting in the coming general election.

A strong critic of her party-led state government, she said she made the decision to quit politics in 2010, two years after she was elected in the 2008 general election, but decided to stay on to serve her constituents.

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