SHAH ALAM, Dec 10 (Sin Chew Daily) – In an exclusive interview with Sin Chew Daily, Teng Chang Khim explained why he decided to quit politics completely.

"There wasn't much I could do in the party," he lamented.

He said he had always played the role of "opposition" within his party, and from the beginning till the end, his was the only opposition voice in the party.

"I felt tired of all this! Really tired!"

He said DAP had failed to implement a total reform, and party members had laid all their hopes on him alone, but that was not right.

"I was tired having to do all this alone. No one else in the party said 'no' and I was always the one who objected.

"You could get tired after some time!"

Teng, who has been vocal against the party and some of its leaders' decisions, admitted that DAP had done very little to "reform", a slogan the party had chanted for years.

As for whether a total reform is possible, Teng said the key lies with Lim Kit Siang and his son Guan Eng.