TELUK INTAN, May 30 ― With less than 24 hours before polling opens, pamphlets have been found across the Teluk Intan constituency attacking the DAP as anti-Malay, with one even sporting an image of Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein in conversation with a panda bear that says in a dialogue bubble “Balik Cina”.

DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang, who showed the posters to the media today, agreed with Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate Datuk Mah Siew Keong that the Teluk Intan by-election was the dirtiest in the federal constituency, but blamed the ruling coalition for its unsavoury nature.

“In this picture, Hishammuddin says 'Apa you mau lagi?' and the panda says 'Balik Cina',” Lim told a press conference at the DAP operations centre here today, holding up a poster of the acting transport minister's picture with one of the pandas brought to Malaysia from China.

In English, “apa you mau lagi?” is translated as “what more do you want?”, and “balik Cina” is translated as “go back to China”.

The refrain is a replication of Malay daily Utusan Malaysia's controversial headline “Apa lagi Cina mau?” that was published shortly after the 13th general election last year that saw BN's worst-ever electoral performance.

“We're not pandas. We're Malaysians. We were born here, bred here and we'll die here,” said Lim today.

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, who was also at the press conference, said one of the posters of DAP's Teluk Intan hopeful Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud was defaced with the word “Babi”, which is the Malay word for “pig”.

Muslims consider pigs unclean.

Kit Siang also showed another pamphlet that claimed a Dyana Sofya victory in the heated election would result in the DAP chasing away the Malays from Penang.

Another allegation said that if the DAP was to come to power, Malaysia's official religion would be Christianity by 2020 as 90 per cent of the opposition party's leadership are Christians.

“These are lies. The religion of the federation is Islam and it's not true that 90 per cent of DAP's leaders are Christian,” said the Gelang Patah MP.

Aside from anti-Malay attacks against the party, which is seen as being predominantly Chinese, pamphlets attacking Dyana Sofya's ethnicity were also found in the Chinese-majority constituency.

A pamphlet found by The Malay Mail Online ― which was written in Chinese characters ― on the roadside in town said the Malays cannot not be trusted.

“Malays will always be Malays. Cannot be trusted! Cannot be relied on!!!” the pamphlet read, giving former DAP leaders like Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim and Zulkifli Mohd Noor as examples.

Dyana Sofya will take on Mah in a straight fight for the closely-contested Teluk Intan federal seat in Perak tomorrow.