KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — PAS could lose all its parliamentary and state seats outside of its strongholds in the northern states as non-Muslim voters would feel that their trust has been betrayed by the party’s insistent push for hudud, Lim Kit Siang said today.

The DAP veteran warned that a substantial number of seats won by the Islamist party in the 2013 general election were secured through strong non-Muslim support that was garnered through Pakatan Rakyat’s common policy framework and manifesto, which did not include hudud.

“With the tabling of the hudud amendment bill in Kelantan and most shockingly, the tabling of a private member’s bill by PAS president in the ongoing parliamentary session, it is fair to say that the non-Muslims’ trust in PAS has all but evaporated,” Lim said in a statement.

The Gelang Patah MP noted that seven of PAS’s 21 parliamentary seats were won outside of its northern strongholds of Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu.

At the same time, 29 of the party’s 85 existing state seats are outside of Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu, placing a premium on non-Muslim support in non-traditional constituencies where PAS was voted in.

Should PAS lose 30 per cent of the non-Muslim vote, Lim stressed that the Islamist party faces the real possibility of losing the seven parliamentary and 29 state seats outside its traditional bastions.

“PAS will be almost wiped out in Selangor. It will lose all of its parliamentary seats in Selangor (Hulu Langat, Shah Alam, Kota Raja, Sepang) and 14 out of the 15 state seats in Selangor.

“It will lose all four state seats in Johor. It will lose all 5 state seats in Perak. It will lose 2 out of 3 state seats in Pahang. It will lose 4 out of 9 state seats in Kedah,” Lim said, citing a scenario study on possible polls outcome by DAP.

The situation will be more dire if PAS suffers a 40 per cent drop in non-Muslim support, as it will lose eight Parliament seats and an additional five state seats, Lim added.

“Does PAS want to go back to the situation in 2004 when it was left with only a handful of parliament and state seats in Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu and lose the hard fought ground it has gained in Pulau Pinang, Perak, Selangor and Johor?

“The damage has already been done by PAS president Hadi Awang and the Deputy Menteri Besar of Kelantan, Nik Amar.

“The only question that remains is whether Hadi Awang wants to restore PAS’ reputation especially among the non-Muslims within the Pakatan Rakyat coalition or whether he wants PAS to contest the next general election on its own,” he said.

DAP and PAS have been embroiled in an acrimonious spat over the past few weeks following the latter party’s insistence on pushing ahead with amendments to shariah laws in Kelantan aimed at enabling the implementation of hudud in the state.

The amendments - which were easily passed on an overwhelming majority by that Kelantan state assembly last Thursday - were to go in tandem with two private members’ bills to amend the Federal Constitution to allow hudud implementation in Kelantan.

The bills have since been submitted to Parliament by Hadi.

DAP’s central executive committee are expected to meet tonight to discuss their future with PR, accusing PAS of having “backstabbed” them over hudud.