Guan Eng accuses PAS president of treachery
KUALA LUMPUR: PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang has committed acts of treachery which are untenable and a deliberate act of provocation to break up Pakatan Rakyat (PR), according to DAP secretarygeneral Lim Guan Eng.
He said the issue facing the PR Leadership Council was no longer just PAS' stubborn insistence to trust and cooperate with Umno to implement hudud laws but also the PAS president's utter contempt for PR by repeatedly breaking his own promises to PR issued personally.
"Such an approach by Hadi of either 'it is my way or the highway' cannot be part of, and violates the consensus approach adopted by PR towards a healthy, democratic and functional coalition," he said in a statement yesterday.
Lim noted that Abdul Hadi's unilateral decision to table a Private Member's Bill to allow hudud implementation in the current parliament sitting, was an act of treachery by PAS in breaching the PR consensus agreed upon, by the PAS top leader during the PR Leadership Council meeting on Feb 8.
He contended that Abdul Hadi had however, served notice to Parliament on March 18, to implement hudud on Muslims in Kelantan by amending Act 355, which is the Syariah Court's (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965.
Lim, who is also Penang Chief Minister and Bagan member of parliament, pointed out the PAS hudud bill was only passed unanimously by the Kelantan State Assembly on March 19.
"By serving notice even before the bill was passed, shows that Hadi has again broken his promise made personally by him during the Feb 8 meeting that any attempt to move a private member's bill would be first discussed by the PR Leadership Council," he noted.
On March 18, Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob tabled the Syariah Criminal Code II 1993 (Amendment 2015) to enable the implementation of PAS’ hudud law in Kelantan. The bill was passed one day later.
On his part, Abdul Hadi had reportedly said that PAS had learned to accept and respect other religions and questioned why non-Muslims could not respect Islam.
He had also said that PAS adhered to the Constitution in its push to implement hudud and did not intend to stop non-Muslims from practising their religions.
Lim went on to claim that non-Muslim and moderate Muslim voters who supported PAS in the last general election were angered by Abdul Hadi's betrayal.
"For Hadi to claim that non-Muslims still have a place in their hearts for PAS, is sad not only because it's untrue but that he's so delusional to believe that PAS support among non-Muslims has not disappeared," he said.
He reiterated that DAP firmly opposed the implementation of the hudud laws "not because it is Islamic but because hudud is unconstitutional and contrary to our Federal Constitution".
He said that at the coming DAP emergency Central Executive Committee meeting on Monday night, the latest action by Abdul hadi would be considered, together with the hudud laws passed by the PAS-led Kelantan Government.