DAP strongman Lim Kit Siang posed this question in a comment on the screening of a video at the Umno general assembly which showed Hew telling voters to let the “Malays screw the Malays.”

“Would Najib say Hew was right if he had said ‘Let the Chinese screw the Chinese’ or ‘Let the Indians screw the Indians?'” said Lim yesterday as he spoke to reporters covering the DAP national conference here.

However, he was anxious to distance himself from Hew. He said Hew was wrong to say what he said.

“A wrong is a wrong, but is it necessary for the prime minister to racialise crude, vulgar and wrongful expressions?”

He said DAP leaders disapproved of Hew’s remark and he subsequently left the party.

“Or had Najib been wrongly advised by his advisers, who had withheld from him this information?”

Hew made the remark in an attempt to whip up support for Malay DAP candidate Abdul Aziz Isa during the Sarawak state election early this year. He quit DAP after a backlash on his remarks about the South China Sea conflict.