DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang has urged Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to give a full explanation on his blessing to the exclusive preview of the controversial film Tanda Putera to some 3,000 Felda settlers yesterday.

NONEHe said the May 13 film portrays "downright lies and dangerous falsehoods" as it shows a scene of a group of Chinese youths urinating on the flagpole bearing the Selangor flag outside the Selangor menteri besar's residence.

The scene was told to Malaysiakini reporters by those who watched the film at the Putra World Trade Complex in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

Reporters were asked to leave the hall before the film was screened.

According to Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Ahmad Maslan, Najib had asked for the film to be showed to the settlers.

NONELim (centre in photo) said that the exclusive screening of the "dishonest and unbalanced" film is a final admission by Najib that he is in desperate straits about facing the unavoidable 13th general election and the failures of all his efforts so far to win back support from the voters.

"I am shocked that a prime minister who has made ‘1Malaysia' his signature policy has now repudiated his National Transformation Programme and discredited all his preaching of moderation and ethics at national and international forums by giving official blessings to a film which mischievously and maliciously tried to portray me as the person responsible for the May 13 riots in 1969," said Lim in a statement today.

The Ipoh Timor MP again denied the earlier allegation which had appeared on the film's official Facebook page that he had urinated on the flagpole, thus provoking the May 13 riots, as he was not in Kuala Lumpur during that period.

NONEThe facts, he said, have completely debunked the claim by Tanda Putera's director Shuhaimi Baba (left) that the May 13 riot scene - which lasted for about 10 minutes of the 115-minute film - was historically accurate.

"Furthermore, isn't the scene of a group of Chinese youths allegedly urinating on the flag pole outside the Selangor menteri besar's residence not only fictitious and a total figment of the imagination, but dangerously racist and criminally incendiary and seditious?

"How can a prime minister who proclaims an inclusive ‘1Malaysia' policy give his blessing to such a falsehood - which is seditious and criminally incendiary and inflammatory - to sow racial hatred and distrust at a very sensitive moment in the nation's history facing the 13th general election?" he questioned.