00:00Three-term Batu Gajah MP V Sivakumar will run for re-election to DAP's 30-member Central
00:08Executive Committee at the party elections next month.
00:12The former Human Resources Minister confirmed this with FMT, saying he had been nominated
00:17to contest the DAP polls.
00:19Sivakumar, who was dropped from Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's cabinet in December 2023,
00:25joined DAP in 1997.
00:28He won his first election in 2008, becoming the Trono Assemblyman.
00:33The DAP Deputy Secretary-General was elected as Batu Gajah MP in 2013 and defended the
00:38seat in the 2018 and 2022 general elections.
00:42There has been speculation over whether other DAP veterans will contest this year's CEC
00:47polls following the withdrawal of four party stalwarts.
00:51They are current DAP Advisor Tan Kok Wai, Treasurer Fung Kwee Loon, Vice-Chairman M
00:56Kulasegaran, and former Penang Executive Councillor P Boon Po.
01:01DAP Vice-Chairman and Sixth-Term Seputu MP Teresa Kok said she would be vying for a spot
01:06on the CEC as she did not consider herself a senior party member yet.
01:11Dhanush Rajareza, FMT News.
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