DETRACTORS have mocked DAP for playing the “throw stone then hide hand” game after the party’s Johor chairwoman Teo Nie Ching accused certain quarters of deliberately altered the posters of its six potential state election candidates by portraying them as “tudung-clad Muslims”.
She has hit out at the blatant act as having intended to instill fear among non-Malay voters, particularly the Chinese community, ahead of the July 11 Johor state polling day by discouraging them from voting for Pakatan Harapan (PH).
“Don’t fall for slander,” the national DAP women’s wing chief penned in a bilingual (Mandarin and Bahasa Malaysia) Facebook post yesterday (Feb 17).
“DAP respects all religions and understands that the tudung as part of Muslim women’s attire should never be trivialised. The dirty tactics of altering these posters are despicable acts that must be rejected.”
But not everyone is taking at par value the justification by the Kulai MP who is also the Deputy Communications Minister that the attempt to tarnish DAP’s image in such a manner not only reflected negative intentions towards the party but also appeared to show a disregard for women.
“The tribe itself is the one who spread the slander then blames the opposition; how foolish can DAP be,” mocked one commenter while another pointedly asked “is it your own people doing it?”
Some presumably party grassroots also teased that non-Muslim DAP women representatives also “frequently’ don headscarves (especially when stepping into the confines or mosque/surau in their constituencies as a mark of respect)”.
“When they want Malay votes, they’ve no qualms go to the village wearing a tudung and a baju kurung. When they’re already in power, they become big headed. This is indeed two-faced,” mocked a Malay Johorian.
In essence, Teo herself has a reputation ‘scarred’ by the so-called Marina Ibrahim saga whereby the Skudai state assemblywoman quit DAP recently purportedly in protest of the party wanting to field her in the Malay-majority Tiram state seat.
The Election Commission (EC) has set June 27 as nomination day for the Johor state election and July 11 as polling day following the dissolution of the State Legislative Assembly on June 1.
Johor has 56 state seats with Barisan Nasional (BN) holding 40 seats before the dissolution, followed by PH with 12, Perikatan Nasional (PN) with three and MUDA with one. – June 18, 2026
