KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 -- Umno Women chief Datuk Seri Noraini Ahmad has denied that party president, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, instructed party leaders to invite DAP representatives to every programme they organise.

Her comments come after a recent WhatsApp conversation allegedly among members of the Umno supreme council on the supposed directive went viral.

In a statement today, Noraini called the leaked conversation an attempt at slander by "irresponsible parties who are trying to break up the party".

"This is all slander. As far as I know, this WhatsApp group does not exist. If real, it is not MT Umno's official WhatsApp group. Maybe it was deliberately created to slander the party," she said, using the Malay acronym for 'supreme...