Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob says a new date for the special sitting will be announced later. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, December 27, 2014.
Worsening floods have prompted the Kelantan government to postpone the state legislative assembly's special sitting on Monday to pave the way for the enforcement of hudud in the state, The Star reported.
Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob made the announcement today, and said all assemblymen were busy assisting their constituents affected by the floods in their respective areas, the daily reported.
He said a new date for the sitting would be announced later.
Monday's sitting was planned to amend Kelantan's Shariah Criminal Code Enactment II, part of a move to pave the way for a private member's bill in Parliament in order to enforce the Islamic penal code in the east coast state.
On Thursday, PAS's Pasir Mas MP Nik Mohamad Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz said the floods were a sign from God that the hudud agenda must go on.
"The floods remind Muslims to return to Allah and to avoid His wrath. It justifies the Kelantan government’s steadfastness in implementing hudud,” he said in Facebook posting.
However, the worsening flood situation yesterday forced PAS to postpone a briefing on the Kelantan Hudud bill.
Yesterday, Ahmad apologised on Facebook for not being able to help the flood victims of his constituency in Pekan Pasir, saying that he, too, was stranded at his home because of the floods.
The PAS-led state government has denied that it was neglecting the people's welfare in its renewed push to enforce hudud in Kelantan, noting that relief efforts were still ongoing.
In Kelantan, 55,960 evacuees are now in relief centres, up from the 45,467 last night, national news agency Bernama reported today.
The total number of evacuees nationwide rose to 132,684 today, with Negri Sembilan becoming the eighth state affected by the second wave of floods ravaging the peninsula.
The situation in Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang, Johor and Perak is reportedly worsening, while Perlis and Kedah report that the flood situation has improved.
PAS's Pakatan Rakyat ally DAP has warned that ties with the Islamist party will further deteriorate if it was adamant about convening the state assembly sitting, with veteran opposition leader Lim Kit Siang saying he did not see any reason to attend future meetings of the coalition.
PKR, on the other hand, said it had yet to decide whether to support the amendment, and preferred to first see the draft.
- TMI
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