Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali sarcastically said that he suffered sleepless nights after the DAP declared that it was not an anti-Malay or anti-Islam party.

"The DAP repeated this assertion during the Pakatan Harapan conference.

“They promised to defend Islam, the Malay language, the sovereignty of the Malay rulers and the special position of Malays.

"I was shocked by the statement, I could not sleep for 50 hours," he told a press conference at the Perkasa headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.

Ibrahim warned Malays not to be taken in by DAP's overtures, accusing the party of having questioned the position of Malays and Islam such as the New Economic Policy.

He added that the composition of the DAP leadership did not also reflect its attempts to court the Malay community.

"They (DAP) claim they are not a racist party... (but) all the top positions in the DAP are held by Chinese," he said.

He added that the party's leadership did not even have 30 percent of Malays.