SPDP challenges DAP Sarawak to go for broke on hudud issue

Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) has dared Sarawak DAP to sever ties with its DAP counterpart in the peninsula to prove its total rejection of hudud implementation in the country.

Its president, Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing said on the part of Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties, they had made a clear stand opposing hudud implementation in the recent BN Supreme Council meeting on March 20 as it contradicted the country's constitution.

“BN component parties respect each other's religions, however any decision needs the consent and agreement of all, unlike PAS who implemented hudud law without consent from its alliance,” he said in a statement, Saturday.

On March 27, Sarawak DAP announced it was quitting the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) opposition pact that comprised PKR and PAS in the state with immediate effect.

Its chairman, Chong Chieng Jen, said the unanimous decision was made because a PR partner, PAS had deviated from the PR common policy framework by pursuing the implementation of hudud law in Malaysia.

Chong, who is Kuching MP and Kota Sentosa assemblyman, said the resolution of Sarawak DAP was a unanimous decision of the state committee and that under the DAP party structure, Sarawak DAP had the autonomy to make such a decision.

Tiong said to affirm Sarawak DAP's opposition towards Hudud implementation in the country, its state chairman Chong Chieng Jen should resign his post as DAP deputy-chairman at the national level too.

He said DAP Sarawak should be consistent in its hudud stand as at the national level DAP had cut off ties with PAS president Datuk Seri Hadi Awang but still maintained the pact with PAS and PKR.