KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 14 -- Barisan Nasional (BN) has warned that any of its component parties considering leaving the coalition should be prepared to accept the consequences of that decision, with its chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi saying there would be no return for those that exit.

"Do not regret leaving BN. If you leave, there is no way back," Ahmad Zahid said, adding that parties should not later pressure BN to revisit such decisions.

"Only time - and relations between parties - will determine the direction, even if it leads to your own political demise," he said, as reported by Buletin TV3, at the 33rd annual general assembly of the All Malaysian Indian Progressive Front (IPF Malaysia) in Hulu Langat today.

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