COMMENT The faux pas committed by Perak DAP chief Ngeh Koo Ham with regard to the anti-Islam video that is the subject of worldwide protests by followers of the Muslim religion provides the national leadership of the party with the latest pretext for dusting up a old recommendation by its chairperson, Karpal Singh.

This is that, with an exemption made for party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, no DAP nominee in the 13th general election would be allowed dual candidature - for Parliament and the state assembly simultaneously...