DAP’s Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching wants police act urgently against Kota Bharu Umno for holding an event where effigies of DAP leaders were burned.

She said the same urgency must be shown as when police offered a reward for information on the duo who stomped on a picture of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang at the Bersih 4 rally last month.

“What done by Kota Bharu Umno is far worse than stomping on pictures. So may I know if the inspector-general of police is going to take any action against the thugs?” she asked in a statement.

She said the act of burning effigies of DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and his father and DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang “uncivilized and barbaric method” of self-expression.

Kota Bharu Umno chief Mohd Fatmi Che Salleh’s assertion that he did not set alight the effigies also mean little, she said, since the video of the incident ciruclating online shows the torching was pre-arranged.

In separate statement, DAP Youth chief Teo Kok Seong said the torching of the effigies is a “willfull act to spur racial politics”.

He said DAP Youth members nationwide will lodge police reports against Kota Bharu Umno for threatening public peace.