Continuing his tirade, Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak adopted the opposition's slogan in his bid to woo Chinese and Indian votes.

The former premier said Najib was told that the Chinese rejected his predecessor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi because of their dislike for the New Economic Policy.

"To win them back Najib must ignore affirmative action and should be seen to be more supportive of the Chinese and Indians.

"He reduced places for bumiputeras in the government universities even though in the numerous private universities and twinned colleges, bumiputeras make up less than 10 percent.

"Bumiputera contactors and small business no longer had government favour. Most had to stop their businesses.

"Without saying so in so many words he had adopted the 'Malaysian Malaysia' slogan of the opposition, only calling it '1Malaysia' instead," he added in his latest blog posting.

Pomp and pageantry

Mahathir said Najib also gave in to opposition demands to abolish preventive detention laws such as the Internal Security Act 1960, which resulted in spiraling crime rates.

This was followed by dolling out cash in form of BR1M and organising rallies to pat himself on the back.

"The organisers were instructed to gather 10,000 people. They were given food and allowances and were transported to the sites, where they were given placards to hold up with 'I love PM' written on them.

"A song 1M4U was composed and sung even at the national day parade," he said.

Despite all the peagentry, Mahathir said BN still lost support from the Chinese and Malays. He said he had informed Najib that his strategy was flawed, but his views were ignored.

"I said before the 2013 elections that if he did worse than Abdullah he should resign. I had fully expected him to do better than Abdullah.

"When he failed I told people that they should continue to support him. I was prepared, despite everything to see him lead the BN during GE14.

"But now with the controversies dogging him I am sure BN would lose if he continues to lead," wrote Mahathir.

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