BUDIMAN SHOCKER: COARSE UMNO MAN LETS GO 'SMELLY FART' IN BID TO WIN VOTERS HEARTS

In an attempt to woo Chinese voters through social media, BN candidate for the parliament seat Budiman Mohd Zohdi has set up a Chinese Facebook page, which aims to cast him in a casual light.

But some of the postings appeared to be crude, and even conveyed the wrong message, which could dim his prospects.

In one photograph, a laughing Budiman was shown together with two voters, and the caption read, "Just farted, it's smelly. Hahahaha..."

On nomination day, the candidate said his Chinese supporters had helped him create the Facebook page, in which he is known as "Ah Man".

The "About" column, reads: "Hi everybody, I am Ah Man, candidate for Sungai Besar by-election. I am a Malaysian who grew up in the kampung, and I love making friends. I like nasi lemak, roti canai and hailam mee."

The page, whose first posting was made on June 2, has more than 50 photographs at present and close to 1,000 'likes'.

Apart from this, there is also a video of Budiman introducing himself in Mandarin.

In another post which appeared to miss the mark, Budiman used a Chinese idiom to urge Sungai Besar voters to "benefit from both sides", which is to vote a state assemblyperson from the opposition while casting their ballots for a parliamentarian from BN.

Unfortunately, the idiom is used to describe a negative trait, which is exploiting or profiteering from both sides.

"Now the state seat (Sekinchan) belongs to Orange (opposition), then hor... If parliamentary seat, give Blue (BN) a chance, then the residents will be very good loh," stated the post.

As expected, his rivals from DAP bombarded the page with comments, with some asking if Budiman implied that the Chinese were two-faced, and mocked him on the inappropriateness of the language used.

Among them was DAP parliamentary researcher Chung Yi Fan, who considered the Facebook post as an insult to Chinese voters.

"You want to be both parliamentarian and state assemblyperson and take two salaries, what you want is to sit on both seats," he said in reference to Budiman being the Sungai Panjang state assemblyperson.

A check by Malaysiakini later showed that the postings had been removed.