KUALA LUMPUR - PAS secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali yesterday ticked off opposition pact leaders for continuing to bicker about hudud, in a clear sign that the pact is losing support from non-Muslim voters over the issue.
Mustafa said hudud's implementation was a Pas agenda not Pakatan's and for that reason the party will continue to champion it.
"Every party has its own agenda and hudud is ours. This agenda will be discussed later in Pakatan and Pas will continue to push for its implementation," he told a press conference at the Pas headquarters here yesterday.
Mustafa conceded that DAP had opposed hudud's implementation, but stressed that the Chinese dominated party "still respects us".
Meanwhile, PKR leaders said it had been agreed that the opposition pact would not include hudud in its agenda, as that was the agreement reached at a meeting of DAP, PKR and Pas leaders last year.
PKR vice-president N. Surendran said: "All three parties have clearly said before that there is no consensus on the implementation of hudud.
"This has been stated by the leaders of PKR, Pas and DAP."
Another PKR vice-president Sivarasa Rasiah said he stood by the Pakatan's decision to not include hudud in its inter-party agenda.
Sivarasa said it was Pas' democratic right to go on with its hudud agenda, but it should be done on its own party platform.
Hudud has emerged as a major issue recently when Pas deputy spiritual leader, Datuk Dr Haron Din confirmed Pas was still adamant about implementing hudud.
This is despite the DAP's stance, which was strongly against the implementation of hudud.
Anwar was coy when asked to comment on the matter, when approached by reporters in Sarawak on Friday.
When contacted, PKR deputy president Azmin Ali was non-committal in his answer and said it was "a non-issue".
In Gelang Patah, DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang resorted to name calling when asked to respond to a call by Gerakan's president, Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon for him and his son, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, to state their stand on the hudud issue.
Kit Siang, who said his stand on the issue was clear, invited Koh to attend his daily press conferences here where he is contesting in the parliamentary seat, so that he can explain his stand to Koh on the issue.
In Ipoh, Guan Eng, also commented on the issue saying: "Pas has the right to table a motion in Parliament to propose hudud's implementation if Pakatan gains power at the federal level."
He did not want to dwell further on the subject and even did not want to repeat DAP's stand on hudud.
In Putrajaya, Pas vice-president Datuk Husam Musa, who is contesting the parliamentary seat of the country's administrative capital, asked for a debate with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak over the hudud issue.
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PKR Youth rejects DAP’s call for PAS to leave Pakatan over hudud
JASIN - Keadilan Youth Movement (AMK) yesterday voiced its disagreement to a call by DAP that PAS withdraw from the coalition if it insistsd on implementing hudud law in Kelantan.
Its chief, Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin said as the youth movement of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), AMK would not agree with calls especially by its partners in the Pakatan Rakyat for parties to withdraw from coalition without strong reasons.
However, the Melaka state PKR chairman said AMK understood the stand of the DAP on the hudud issue and stressed that it should be resolved within the opposition coalition leadership.
He was met by reporters after voting at Taman Bemban Utama here today for the 2014-2017 PKR leadership election in which he is contesting for the vice-president post.
Kelantan PAS through its members of parliament plan to move a Private Member’s Bill on hudud law at Dewan Rakyat to obtain approval for implementation of Kelantan’s Syariah Criminal Code Enactment (2) 1993 by this December. — Bernama
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“So far, we have only seen DAP claiming that they will fight against hudud law in the media. “This seems to be nothing more than a political tactic, with no real action being taken, or discussion being held in the issue. “If Lim was really sincere in his claim of being opposed to hudud, then why did PAS Central Committee member Nasrudin Hassan say that PAS has not received any official complaint from DAP over this issue? Is DAP really against hudud?”
“So between DAP and PAS, who is lying and who is telling the truth?”
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