DAP must be held accountable over hudud bill - MCA

MCA publicity bureau chairman Datuk Chai Kin Sen said DAP has to be held accountable as at the last general election, it had defended PAS by saying that the Islamic party has become more liberal and will respect the rights of non-Muslims in the country.

“This has then caused many non-Muslim voters, who were initially wary of PAS, to throw their support towards a supposedly brand new version of PAS,” he said in a press statement, Thursday.

He said PAS and DAP had been avoiding the talk of setting up an Islamic country and added that PAS had thrown the idea of welfare state to win the support of the non-Muslims.

“But now after that the election is over we can see for ourselves their true colours,” he said.

Kim Sen was responding to the Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob’s statement that the state government will prepare two bills to be tabled at the Parliament which will open the way for Kelantan to implement hudud laws and qisas by next year.

The Kelantan state exco meeting’s decision is seen as a positive response to Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom who told Dewan Rakyat last week that the federal government is willing to help any state that wants to implement Islamic laws.

Kin Sen said MCA was worried that if PAS tables the law in Parliament, it will be supported by UMNO members of Parliament.

“This has happened in Terengganu when PAS was the running the state and now I am worried that the same thing will happen again,” he said.

He said PAS’s dreams of implementing the hudud laws proved that the party had never abandoned its ultimate goal all this while and added that the party ‘has never changed and still as conservative as before’.