{"id":12460,"date":"2015-03-20T17:08:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T09:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=12460"},"modified":"2015-03-20T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T09:10:09","slug":"dap-pas-fallen-in-umnos-hudud-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/dap-pas-fallen-in-umnos-hudud-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"DAP: PAS fallen into UMNO’s “Hudud trap”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DAP is angered by PAS Hudud move in Kelantan, said Lim Guan Eng.<\/p><\/div>\n

The DAP today issued a strongly worded statement condemning PAS\u2019s Hudud amendment in Kelantan, saying that the Islamic party had fallen into \u201cUMNO\u2019s trap\u201d to betray the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) consensus.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy falling into UMNO\u2019s trap to betray PR\u2019s consensus and common policy in passing hudud laws in the Kelantan State Assembly, PAS Kelantan may have destroyed its electoral prospects in Kelantan but it has brought closer UMNO\u2019s dreams of destroying PR,\u201d said DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng in a statement.<\/p>\n

On 27 March 2014, UMNO Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s department had said that the Barisan Nasional government was prepared to assist Kelantan PAS to implement Hudud laws, which Lim says was an act of instigation by UMNO.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy should MCA and Gerakan blame PAS alone, but dare not adopt former MCA Deputy Minister Datuk Gan Ping Shieu\u2019s suggestion to punish UMNO by severing ties, when UMNO not only supported PAS but instigated PAS to implement hudud?\u201d asked Lim.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, MCA had protested at the DAP headquarters at Jalan Yew<\/a>, Kuala Lumpur, demanding that all DAP MP\u2019s and State Assemblymen resign for \u201cnot being able to control PAS\u201d by preventing the Hudud bill amendment in Kelantan \u2013 which was also seconded by all UMNO MP\u2019s in the state.<\/p>\n

Lim said that since UMNO had supported the amendment, Hudud is no longer an issue PAS has against UMNO in Kelantan.<\/p>\n

He said that UMNO can now steer the people\u2019s focus on BN\u2019s main asset of bringing development to the state, contrary to PAS\u2019s poor governance which was highlighted during the floods that hit Kelantan \u2013 the worst flood hit East Coast state.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the Merdeka Centre survey showed that 81% Malay\/Muslim respondents think that the Kelantan state government should concentrate on repairing and rebuilding homes of flood victims rather than on implementing hudud,\u201d said Lim, who added that there is no substitute of good governance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis 81% Malay\/Muslim support for flood rescue and repairs over hudud laws is in line with Merdeka Center\u2019s previous survey in April 2014, that a majority (58%) of Malay respondents thought that the country is not ready for hudud implementation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Lim, non-Muslim support for PAS had completely disappeared following the Hudud move.<\/p>\n

He added that though DAP leaders were angered by pro-UMNO supporters within PAS, it was not directed at all PAS supporters, most of whom he said were \u201cgenerally principled and honest\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Monday, DAP Central Executive Committee (CEC) will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the party\u2019s position vis-\u00e0-vis PAS.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the democratic spirit, the national leadership will allow party leaders at state and national levels to express their views on this matter privately or publicly to be discussed at the Monday night meeting,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

-The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DAP today issued a strongly worded statement condemning PAS\u2019s Hudud amendment in Kelantan, saying that the Islamic party had fallen into \u201cUMNO\u2019s trap\u201d to betray the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) consensus. \u201cBy falling into UMNO\u2019s trap to betray PR\u2019s consensus and common policy in passing hudud laws in the Kelantan State Assembly, PAS Kelantan may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12468,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460\/revisions\/12468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}