{"id":562,"date":"2009-07-09T11:55:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2009\/07\/pas-answers-umnos-challenge\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T11:55:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:55:33","slug":"pas-answers-umnos-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/pas-answers-umnos-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"PAS answers Umno\u2019s challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong>KUALA KRAI:<\/strong> PAS has taken up Kelantan Umno\u2019s \u201cinvitation\u201d to hold a ceramah (public address) to prove that all is well within the Opposition party and with its alliance partners.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">PAS deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa and spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat will speak at the Laloh wet market, PAS national election director Datuk Wan Abdul Rahim Wan Abdullah said on Thursday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">\u201cThe deputy president\u2019s presence will put to rest allegations by Umno that there is a rift between Nasharuddin and Nik Aziz, and will go to show that PAS is united in the stand against Umno,\u201d he said in a telephone interview.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">On Wednesday, Kelantan Umno <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/7\/9\/manek_urai\/4281089&#038;sec=manek_urai\" target=\"_blank\">issued a challenge<\/a> to the two leaders to speak in public and prove that all is well between them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Talk of a rift surfaced after the two had clashed over the so-called \u201cunity talks\u201d with Umno that Nasharuddin had promoted last month.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Nasharudin will only hit the Manek Urai campaign trail this weekend, after he recovers from a minor surgical procedure he underwent at the Serdang Hospital on Thursday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">The Bachok Member of Parliament is determined to participate in the campaign to ensure PAS retains the state seat, sources said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">PAS secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali said Nasharudin had to delay his trip to Manek Urai because of medical problem, not because of political squabbles.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">\u201cNasharudin told me he will be in Manek Urai by Friday or Saturday after going for a medical check up.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">\u201cAs I heard he is undergoing minor surgery, it may take him a while longer to recover,\u201d he said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">The Manek Urai seat fell vacant following the death of assemblyman Ismail Yaacob on May 22.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Polling day is fixed on July 14.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">The by-election will see a straight fight between Barisan Nasional\u2019s Tuan Aziz Tuan Mat and PAS\u2019 Mohd Fauzi Abdullah. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA KRAI: PAS has taken up Kelantan Umno\u2019s \u201cinvitation\u201d to hold a ceramah (public address) to prove that all is well within the Opposition party and with its alliance partners. PAS deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa and spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat will speak at the Laloh wet market, PAS national election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}