PAS will never join Barisan Nasional, reiterates Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang (pic).
The PAS president said although there was a cooperation between the parties during the 70s, it will never happen again.
”PAS will never join Barisan. Our stance is firm and clear.
”But we will still work with them in tackling national and development issues.
”We want to be the Opposition party that advises the Government,” he said when met after attending a PAS hi-tea convention here Sunday.
Asked if former PAS vice-president Datuk Husam Musa’s allegation that Abdul Hadi wanted to form a unity government with Umno during the Selangor mentri besar crisis last year was true, Abdul Hadi said it was not. ”No such thing. He (Husam) was in Kelantan. He was not involved, how will he know?”
Asked if PAS offered several PKR assemblymen to join PAS in order to form a unity government in Selangor, Abdul Hadi denied it.
”Did you see it happened? If not, then there was no such thing,” he said.
Abdul Hadi also noted that such allegations were ketinggalan zaman (outdated) as these were old issues during the 70s.
”Unity government did not mean (cooperation) with Barisan alone but it involved all parties.
”There was an attempt in 2008 but many did not agree, so it did not work,” he said.
Asked on Husam’s statement that he was willing to swear to divorce his wife to prove that his claim about the PAS-Umno unity government was true, Abdul Hadi merely responded ”let him be”.
”If (Husam thinks that) what he said was right and we were lying, please swear,” he added.
Abdul Hadi also said that the Islamist party’s central leadership was waiting for a report from Kelantan PAS whether to allow disciplinary action to be taken against Husam for his critical stance against the state government.
”Any action has to be based on report of the central leadership.
”We do not rely on Facebook or any baseless report,” he said during a question-and-answer session, adding that disciplinary actions could be in a form of termination, suspension, duty discharge or counselling-thestaronline
