DAP and PAS over never-ending hudud again

The Kelantan state government's move to hold a special sitting at the state assembly on Dec 29 to amend the syariah law to pave the way for hudud law in the state has once again put DAP and PAS at odds.

DAP, which has criticised the PAS hudud agenda in its annual convention over the weekend, once again reminded PAS today that it must fully subscribe to the Pakatan Rakyat common policy framework as long as the Islamic party is still part of the coalition.

"If they persist to implement it, we must object to it clearly as it not a personal singular stand of an individual but the parties' stand," DAP's Puchong MP Gobind Singh Deo (right) said today.

DAP national organising secretary Anthony Loke said that the move was "clearly" not in the spirit of opposition coalition.

However, PAS has continued defending their move under the tenets of democracy, claiming that their efforts to introduce hudud must go through the due democratic process and while disagreements are accepted, no parties should stop the party from pursuing its agenda.

"This is a democratic country. Let it go through the democratic process. You can't talk about democracy and then stop people from following the due democratic process," he said.