KAJANG Three days to the Kajang by-election polling day and the claws are out.

However, curiously, in multiracial Kajang, the game has boiled down to who is more racist than the other.

Beyond a flood of banners accusing PKR candidate Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail of planning to "abandon" Kajang after the by-election, small flags enigmatically stating "#C4C"  have cropped up in Chinese majority Sungai Chua.

Could it be a call for the 41 percent Chinese voters to vote for an ethnic Chinese candidate?

MCA campaigners have denied having anything to do with the unattributed banners and challenged PKR to own up to its own shadow play.

PKR campaigners, who have reported the unattributed materials to the Election Commission, also claim to have received complaints of other ostensibly racist leaflets.

"Residents called me up to say someone put leaflets saying Wan Azizah is more Chinese than (BN's) Chew Mei Fun on their cars parked in Kajang town," former PKR Kajang assemblyperson Lee Kim Sin said.

Lee also claimed that Malay residents approached him to say they received leaflets saying Wan Azizah will dump "Ketuanan Melayu" (Malay supremacy) while Chew will uphold it.

Umno, which is largely on the defensive to contain sympathy votes for PKR after PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy conviction, claims innocence.

Indeed, Selangor Umno chief Noh Omar sees this as “the oldest trick” in the book.

"Anyone can print something slanderous, distribute it, and blame the opponent for it," Noh said, even after it was pointed out that some of these materials were found at BN operations centres.

Chew, who has justified campaigning on her ethnicity as a call for a "multiracial opposition bench" in the Selangor state assembly, has also turned the tables on PKR.

Yesterday, she posted on her campaign Facebook page a commentary accusing PKR campaigners of racial politics for raising the SRJK (C) Damansara and vernacular education issue.

The commentary, first published in the New Straits Times , quoted a representative of Chinese education group Dong Zong who, while campaigning for PKR, accused the BN-led federal government of supporting only "Malay schools".

However, for PKR, this is an old issue revived to show how Chew had turned against the local community while she was deputy minister but now tried to claim credit for the issue.

Lee (left) who is better known as 'Cikgu Lee' and had volunteered at the makeshift SRJK (C) Damansara when parents refused to move, appeared genuinely surprised to hear that PKR is accused of racism over it.

"This is not a racial matter but a matter of community education rights," he said.

Additional reporting by Kow Kwan Yee.