KUALA LUMPUR, March 29 ― Despite being suspended, DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang got away with attending the Dewan Rakyat meeting today.

Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia said he chose to "turn a blind eye” to the Gelang Patah MP’s attendance today, after suspending the latter yesterday.

"I can choose to turn a blind eye,” Pandikar said, adding that he did not "see” Lim in the lower House of Parliament even though the federal Opposition lawmaker was seated there.

Lim was ejected from the House and suspended six months yesterday due to his refusal to obey the Pandikar’s instructions and also for disrupting the House proceedings.

But Lim refused to leave his seat despite the Speaker’s order.

He also voted during a bloc vote on the redelineation report yesterday, but his vote was not counted by the secretariat.

"I have said before that my option is to get the police to come in and remove the member, but I don’t want to do that because I don’t want the foreign media to see how our Parliament lacks manners,” Pandikar said.

Lim later described himself as a "Parliamentary ghost” since Pandikar refused to acknowledge his presence.

The MP attempted to question Pandikar about the status of his suspension, but the latter ignored his presence in the House.

In a press conference later, DAP parliamentary whip Anthony Loke contended that Lim’s suspension is not effective as Pandikar did not finish reading out the motion to suspend him for six months yesterday.

"For us, the suspension itself is suspended. We will wait for the Hansard to establish what actually happened,” he said.