Pakatan Harapan will have to consider the option of snap polls in Selangor as the Election Commission's (EC) redelineation exercise is meant to return Umno to power in the state, said DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang.

"Only a person who has the special brief to redelineate the Selangor state assembly seats with the sole objective of returning Umno/BN to state power in Selangor could have so mangled and butchered the map of Selangor," he said in a statement today.

Lim advised Umno deputy minister Razali Ibrahim, who denied that the redelineation exercise is in favour of Umno and BN, to look at the proposal's redrawn boundaries for Selangor.

"Razali and other Umno leaders know the truth, but are putting up a great show," he said.

The Gelang Patah MP described the exercise as the most unashamed, blatant and flagrant violation of the democratic principle of “one man, one vote”.

"The current fifth constituency redelineation is making history by making the voter disparity in electoral constituencies even greater than before – which is clearly not intended by the constitution," he added.

Beside regaining Umno's power in Selangor state, he said, other multiple objectives included regaining for BN the two-thirds parliamentary majority and eliminating individual personalities in the next poll.

Former deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin, former Perak menteri besar Nizar Jamaluddin and PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar were among the individuals that BN wanted to eliminate, he claimed.

Meanwhile, DAP organising secretary Anthony Loke said the party is mulling challenging the proposed redelineation exercise in court.

This was discussed in the party's three-hour meeting yesterday, Loke was quoted as saying by Oriental Daily.

"We had conducted a meeting among the MPs about the redelineation, we may challenge (EC), we are considering it," he said.

The redelineation proposal announced by EC in two newspapers last Thursday drew much flak. Much of the criticism was focused on Selangor, where the number of voters in the parliamentary seats were dramatically altered.

The parliamentary seats in Selangor that the opposition won by more than 60 percent of the votes cast, with the exception of Puchong, were all enlarged.

However, all marginal seats won by the opposition with a vote share of between 55 percent and 60 percent were shrunk.

Meanwhile, high risk opposition seats that were won by less than 55 percent, as well as BN seats, were largely unchanged.

BN lost Selangor to Pakatan Rakyat since 2008 where it only won 20 state seats out of 56 in the 2008 poll and 12 state state seats in the 2013 election.

When quizzed on the snap polls suggestion by Lim, PKR vice-president Tian Chua said that they had yet to discuss this.

"(The PKR leadership) will discuss this soon," he said to reporters as he was leaving Parliament, after a briefing on parliamentary reforms today.