The feud between MCA and Umno supreme council member Nazri Abdul Aziz has hit a new low when even photographs of party president Liow Tiong Lai and Nazri holding hands have become taboo.
MCA in a Facebook posting tonight slammed the circulation of a photograph of Liow and Nazri holding hands to hit a drum together.
The party said the photograph was aimed at putting Liow in a bad light at a time when Nazri and the MCA were feuding.
It said the picture was taken in August last year, before the feud with the minister.
"Netizens with ulterior motives who circulate these images at a time when Nazri is causing anger in the Chinese community, aim to give a misleading picture of the relationship between Nazri and Liow.
"It is aimed to mislead the Chinese community to think that Liow had sold them out," it said.
MCA and Nazri had been engaged in a war of words over the billionaire Robert Kuok matter.
Nazri had previously labelled the Hong Kong-based Kuok "pondan" (effeminate) and challenged him to relinquish his Malaysian citizenship after blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin claimed the billionaire was funding the DAP.
Kuok subsequently denied the allegation and said he reserved the right to sue the UK-based blogger.
Although Nazri thanked Kuok for the clarification, he maintained that he would not apologise for his outbursts against the billionaire.
However, MCA demanded that Nazri apologises, prompting Nazri to hurl a series of insults at the party that quickly escalated.
According to China Press, Nazri and Liow appeared to be in a state of cold war during a government-organised Chinese New Year celebration in Sungai Petani, Kedah, last Saturday night.
It described an awkward scene during the celebration which was attended by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak. Nazri attended the function dressed in black, a colour that is regarded as bad fortune by the Chinese.
The newspaper said Liow and Nazri, who were separated by the prime minister and his wife Rosmah Mansor, had treated each other as if they were "invisible".
