PAS members are rallying behind their president amid a worsening spat with DAP, demanding that its secretary-general Lim Guan Eng retract his allegations against Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang.
PAS vice-president Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (pic) said the Islamist party was disappointed with the “wild allegations” made against Hadi.
“PAS urges that DAP retracts all excessive and baseless allegations,” he said in a statement.
“Rude and insulting statements by DAP against our president and party have gone beyond the culture and norms which Malaysians can accept, what more within a political grouping,” Tuan Ibrahim added.
Among other things, Lim said on Tuesday that Hadi persisted in “dishonest and dishonourable” acts by pushing to implement hudud.
Lim then announced DAP’s decision to cut ties with Hadi, but not with PAS.
Tuan Ibrahim said it would be pointless for Pakatan Rakyat to conduct any further meetings involving PAS if DAP continued with its “arrogant stance”.
In Penang, the Youth, Ulama and Muslimat wings of PAS also issued a joint statement saying that they stood by Hadi and supported his move to implement hudud.
Youth chief Suhaizan Kaiat said that severing ties with the president was akin to splitting up with the Islamist party altogether.
Expressing his disappointment over DAP’s decision, Suhaizan urged the two parties to find a way to resolve their differences.
“We want PAS to be strong within Pakatan but how can PAS be strong without our president?”
In Ipoh, Perak PAS Youth said it was ready to sever ties with the state DAP Socialist Youth after its decision to freeze cooperation with the Islamist party over the hudud issue.
Perak PAS Youth chief Dr Raja Ahmad Iskandar Al-Hiss said they were shocked by the decision made by state Dapsy as they had been working well and were close to each other.-thestaronline
