Federal Territories Minister Shahidan Kassim was overwhelmed by calls after sharing his phone number in Parliament.

Shahidan, who had given out his phone number for people to report on potholes, urged the public seeking to contact him to send him a text message instead.

"I received hundreds of calls about potholes that I couldn't take them one by one.

"I ask that they send an SMS so that I can take immediate action," he was quoted as saying by Utusan Malaysia.