KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 — PAS’s insistence on hudud will not just condemn the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pact but also any chance to unseat Barisan Nasional (BN) from power, DAP’s Lim Kit Siang said today.

According to the DAP parliamentary leader, the ultimate outcome will be a fractured opposition that will be of no challenge to Umno and the BN coalition it leads in the coming general election.

Lim also reiterated his previous argument that the Islamic penal law would have prevented the electoral victories that allowed PR to twice deny BN its parliamentary supermajority and take the popular vote in 2013.

“All these gains will go to nought if hudud had been a hot controversial issue in the 2013 general election, or if Pakatan Rakyat is forced to disintegrate because of the failure to uphold the PR Common Policy Framework.

“In such a case, the victors will be Umno/Barisan Nasional, while the losers will be the healthy democratic development in Malaysia leading to the ousting of Umno/BN from Putrajaya in the 14th general elections,” he said in a statement today.

Lim further said it appeared as though none in the PAS leadership was prepared to stop the party’s Kelantan chapter from proceeding with tabling the amendments to the state’s hudud bill despite objections from the PR presidential council.

Yesterday, PAS turned the tables on allies telling it to end its hudud ambitions to preserve the PR pact, urging PKR and DAP to embrace the Islamic penal law towards the same end.

This comes as Kelantan Deputy Mentri Besar Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah told Malay Mail Online that the state will not revise its amendments to the Islamic penal law as requested by the PR leadership.

On Thursday, the PR presidential council told PAS to “reconsider” its proposed amendments to its Kelantan hudud bill, after the Islamist party shared the planned legislative changes with the opposition pact for the first time.

The Kelantan state government reportedly plans to table amendments to the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code Enactment II 1993 at the state legislative assembly on March 18.

Both PKR and DAP are opposed to ally PAS’s bid to enforce hudud in Kelantan, which has instead found support from rival Umno.