Hadi’s hudud notice to Parliament another treachery, says DAP

 PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang’s move to personally table the proposed hudud bill in Parliament is a sign of treachery, says DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, March 2015.

Pakatan Rakyat (PR) appears headed for a split after DAP described as treachery PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang's move to personally table a proposed law in Parliament to enable hudud to be enforced in Kelantan.

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said Hadi must be delusional if he believed non-Muslims would still supported PAS after "a further act of treachery".

He also criticised the Islamist party for breaching the PR consensus that Hadi himself had agreed to during the leadership council meeting on February 8.

He took Hadi to task for sending a notice to Parliament on the hudud bill on March 18, a day before the Kelantan legislative assembly even passed the bill  to amend the Shariah Criminal Code II Enactment 1993.

"By serving a notice even before the bill was passed shows that Hadi had again broken a promise he made personally at the meeting that any attempt to move a private member’s bill would be first discussed by the PR leadership council.

"The issue the PR leadership council faces now is not just PAS's stubborn insistence to trust and cooperate with Umno to implement hudud but also their president’s utter contempt for PR by repeatedly breaking his own promises.

"Such serial acts of treachery by PAS top leader is untenable and is a deliberate act of provocation to break up PR, or threaten DAP and PKR to either submit to PAS or face a break-up of PR," he said in a statement today.

DAP is training its guns on Hadi after it was reported that he was seeking to table a private member's bill in the current parliament sitting, which ends on April 9, to implement Kelantan's hudud amendments.

Lim said Hadi's "my way or the highway" approach could not be part of PR as it violated their consensus approach that was towards a healthy democratic and functional coalition.

He said DAP would also deliberate Hadi's latest action together with the hudud issue at its emergency central executive committee meeting on Monday night.

He said it was not only DAP being angry at Kelantan PAS and several of its pro-Umno national leaders for their dishonesty, deceit and treachery, but also non-Muslim and moderate Muslim voters, who supported PAS in the last general elections.

"PAS appears to have painted itself into a corner by being willing to lose all, not just the end of PR but also its electoral prospects in the next general elections, to place its trust in Umno to implement hudud.

"For Hadi to claim that non-Muslims still have a place in their hearts for PAS is sad. Not only because it is untrue but he is so delusional to believe that PAS support among non-Muslims have not disappeared," he said.

Lim (pic, left) also reminded Umno and MCA apologists in the Barisan Nasional-controlled Chinese and non-Chinese media that while they were hitting out at DAP over the hudud issue, Umno was also a party in the whole issue, as it also supported hudud.

"They should take heed of former MCA President Tan Sri Dr Chua Soi Lek’s comments today that MCA cannot issue statements attacking DAP when Umno also supported the hudud laws.

"These Umno media apologists in the Chinese media have forgiven Umno for supporting hudud but continue to blame the DAP even though we are a party that has always opposed hudud," he said.

Lim also questioned why the apologists in the Chinese media had chosen to ignore former MCA vice-president Datuk Gan Ping Shieu’s call that MCA should punish Umno by severing ties with the party.

- TMI