DAP's Penang deputy chief minister P Ramasamy has dismissed the prospect of smaller Indian parties such as the Indian Progressive Party (IPF), Makkal Sakthi (MS), Malaysian Indian United Party (Miup), and Malaysian Indian Muslim Congress (Kimma) joining BN as inconsequential.

He said if the coalition's Indian component MIC did not have the support of the Indian community, "what can we expect from the minor or mosquito Indian parties?"

"Minor Indian political parties like these were...