WHY IS UMNO SO PANICKED BY DYANA? DAP using her to dupe the Malays - Utusan

Umno mouthpiece Utusan Malaysia has predicted that Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud's experience with the DAP will end with her leaving the party with regret and feeling worthless like many more Malay leaders before her.

It said DAP fielded Dyana Sofya for the Teluk‎ Intan parliamentary seat to clean up its racist image.

Awang Selamat, a pseudonym used by the editors of the daily, said that DAP had always employed the strategy of "using" Malays to fool the people‎ into thinking it was a multi-racial party.

"The fact is, DAP has always fought for a total agenda for just one race," Awang Selamat wrote in the weekend edition of the paper, Mingguan Malaysia.

Though the article did not say it but going by past articles on the matter, the Utusan Malaysia had always maintained that the DAP championed the Chinese community and had on several occasions labelled the DAP as the “most racist party in the world.”

Awang Selamat predicted that Dyana would go the way of other former DAP members such as former Transparency International chairman and former vice-chairman Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim, former Johor chairman Ahmad Ton and veterans Rahman Manap and Mohamed Razali.

"Rahman once urged the Malays not to be fooled (by DAP), while Mohamed Razali apologised to the Malays after exposing a dangerous incident organised by the DAP," said Awang.

Another DAP leader, Zulkifli Mohd Noor, had said a Malay's membership in the Chinese-dominated party was worth only 50 sen, Awang Selamat added.

"Like other former Malay DAP members, Awang believes that one day, Dyana will leave the party full of regret.

"Right now, let DAP parade her around, before she falls flat into the mud, by which time she will be worthless," said Awang.

Dyana, who is the political aide to DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang, is taking on veteran leader Datuk Mah Siew Kong of the Barisan Nasional (BN), whose candidacy was announced yesterday.

Mah, who is Gerakan president, won the seat in the 1999 and 2004 general elections but lost to DAP's M. Manogaran and Seah Leong Peng in 2008 and 2013 with a 1,470 and 7,313 vote majority respectively.

The seat fell vacant after Seah died from cancer on May 1, triggering a by-election a constituency that includes 23,301 Malay voters‎ (38.6%), 25,310 Chinese voters (41.9%) and 11,468 Indian voters (19%).

‎The DAP, which makes up one-third of the opposition pact, had been trying hard to prove it's detractors wrong by fielding more Malay candidates in the last general election to broaden its appeal.

‎It has two Malay MPs – Bukit Bendera's Zairil Khir Johari and Raub's Datuk Ariff Sabri – both of whom lead Chinese-majority seats.

But in 2012, the pa‎rty hit the headlines when its then vice-chairman, Tunku Abdul Aziz, quit the party following a public spat with PR leaders over the April 28, 2012, Bersih rally.‎ He later held many press conferences condemning DAP for allegedly being a racist party. –TMI