DAP's Sungai Pelek assemblyperson Ronnie Liu has escalated his war of words with the party's leadership, saying that ordinary members are being treated like cannon fodder by a group of elites who rose in the party after the breakthrough general election in 2008.

In a direct rebuttal of party veteran Lim Kit Siang's statement that the "party needed to be safeguarded against external forces which are trying to split and destroy it", Liu (above) denied that the problem was from outside...