Seeing red with Yammy Samat, an Umno member, for campaigning against BN in the Teluk Intan by-election, urgings for her head to roll continue to reverberate.

Umno Youth exco member Tun Faisal Ismail Aziz today became the first ranking member in the party to demand her sacking.

The leading Umno blogger issued a statement endorsed by 44 other pro-BN bloggers, accusing the mother of DAP candidate Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud of being a “traitor” to Umno.

"As members and supporters of Umno, we urge Umno Malaysia's disciplinary board to take action and sack her from this sacred party which has never failed to struggle for Malays for 68 years.

"If Umno members at every level are asked, they would certainly also reject this betrayal to the party,” read the statement.

However, Yammy is unfazed by the calls.

"It is up to the Umno supreme council to decide my position, it is up to them," she told Malaysiakini .

Yammy also reiterated her stance that she would remain in Umno.

"But if the Umno supreme council doesn't want me any more, then there is nothing more I can do," she said.

As for Dyana's defeat, Yammy said she did not know why Dyana lost the by-election, but that she had merely stood by her daughter's side.

"I don't know why the Chinese or Indians did not support my daughter. I only know I accompanied by my daughter during the campaign as a mother," she said.

Asked whether she hoped to see Dyana slug it out again in an electoral contest, Yammy said it was up to the DAP leadership to decide.

"But I believe my daughter is a strong person," she said.

Dyana who faced off against Gerakan president Mah Siew Keong in the Teluk Intan by-election was defeated by a razor-thin 238-vote majority.

DAP's late Seah Leong Peng had won the seat by a 7,313-vote majority in 2013.

In its analysis, DAP said its Chinese support fell from 85 percent to 70 percent while its Indian support fell from 62 percent to 52 percent.

The only silver lining was a marginal increase in Malay support, which rose from 25 percent to 28 percent.

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