KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — Datuk Seri Hadi Awang’s unilateral decision to notify Parliament of PAS’s proposed bills on hudud indicates that he is no longer interested in maintaining ties with Pakatan Rakyat (PR), a DAP MP said today.

The PAS president’s action was not approved by PR’s presidential council and came as a surprise to all PR allies including some in PAS, DAP national organising secretary Anthony Loke claimed.

“Hadi did not follow PR’s decision. He disobeyed the decision of the PR’s presidential council.

“Is this honest? Is he still committed to Pakatan? What we see is Hadi not holding to his own promise,” Loke said at a news conference here.

PAS-ruled Kelantan passed key amendments to its Shariah Criminal Code II 1993 last Thursday in a move to enable the eventual implementation of hudud in the Malay-majority east coast state.

All 12 Umno state lawmakers voted for the amendments but the ruling party’s national leadership has yet to declare if the same support would be given to PAS’s hudud ambition at the federal level.

All Barisan Nasional component parties including Umno are expected to issue a joint statement to declare its position on the controversial issue.

The statement is expected to precede PAS’s attempt to table a private members’ Bill in the ongoing Parliament session that will enable Kelantan to carry out punishments under hudud. Among others, the Islamic criminal justice system prescribes amputation as punishment for crimes like stealing.

Hadi last week served notice to Parliament on the proposed Bill but BN’s law minister Datuk Nancy Shukri said it may not make it into the order paper for the current session as there are many others on the schedule.

PAS only has 21 MPs in the lower House and would need to rely on Muslim MPs from other parties in order to get a simple majority of 112 votes to get the Bill passed.

Tonight, DAP’s national central executive committee (CEC) will hold a meeting to discuss its position in PR following PAS’s hudud manoeuvre in Kelantan.