Kangkung, yelling matches soil polling day

BN and Pakatan Rakyat supporters have resorted to heavily taunting their opponents during last-minute campaign efforts as Kajang voters make their way to the polling stations.

Although campaigning was supposed to have stopped at midnight this morning, thousands of BN and Pakatan supporters still gathered near the entrance of polling stations, frantically waving campaign materials and trying to coax voters into voting their way.

Their antics range from comedic to the vulgar. At times they harass voters outright.

They also do not appear perturbed by the fact that they are creating traffic jams.

Popular among Pakatan supporters is the use of the kangkung vegetable as props, which seemed to irritate BN supporters.

Shouting "kangkung" was also a popular retort to any chants from BN supporters.

Several Pakatan supporters also mimicked the infamous rituals performed by agroup of bomohat Kuala Lumpur International Airport, which is said to help the search for missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370.

To Pakatan supporters, the bomoh is linked to the ruling party Umno, although there has no solid evidence of this.

Racial sentiments played up

Not to be outdone, BN supporters often point their posteriors towards the Pakatan supporters, alluding to PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy conviction.

And if vocal chords were not enough, at times, a group of motorcyclists would be brought in to rev their engines to drown out the chants coming from the Pakatan camp.

But more alarming is the overt use of racial sentiments by some campaigners.

One campaigner at SK Convent Kajang was heard repeatedly telling voters that BN candidate Chew Mei Fun is a Chinese, implying that this was a reason for Chinese voters to back her.

At SRJK(C) Sungai Chua, another campaigner was heard yelling:

"Kajang is a Chinese seat, don't be a traitor to the Chinese".

Chew's opponent is PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, a Malay with Chinese ancestry on her father's side.

Apart from ensuring that the opposing sides don't get too close, the authorities did little else to stop the obvious flouting of election rules and ensure voters could enter polling centres without harassment.