KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 26 — The Kelantan PAS government will only decide this weekend whether to proceed with the special state assembly sitting on hudud scheduled for Monday, despite reports of the state’s worsening flood condition.

Deputy Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah said Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yaakob is expected to make the announcement either tomorrow or Sunday.

“That one (sic) you have to wait for the MB. He will make the announcement over the weekend,” Mohd Amar told Malay Mail Online.

The Panchor assemblyman said most parts of state capital Kota Bharu remain flooded but insisted that the situation is under control.

He also said the same of other parts of Kelantan.

“Its (a) flood. Some areas would subside, some would be heavily flooded. That is the nature of floods,” he said when asked of the Kelantan government’s forecast on the flood situation.

Ahmad Yakob announced the special sitting on December 29 to amend its Shariah Criminal Code Enactment II.

The amendment is said to pave the way for a private member’s bill in Parliament to enable the state to enforce the Islamic penal code, but PAS information chief Datuk Mahfuz Omar denied this by saying the changes were merely updates as the enactment was passed over 20 years ago.

PAS is facing heavy fire from secular partner the DAP for its insistence on wanting hudud in Kelantan, a controversial move the latter say could be the “last straw” to break the young opposition coalition.

More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from their homes by authorities in five northern states of Malaysia hit by the Southeast Asian’ nation’s worst monsoon floods in decades.

Extremely high levels of floodwater and bad weather have made relocating victims and the transport of food supplies by helicopters difficult, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said in a statement.

A total of 103,412 people have been displaced in Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang, Perak and Perlis, state news agency Bernama said, surpassing the previous record of 100,000 people evacuated during floods in 2008.

Northeastern peninsular Malaysia, which is worst affected, is regularly hit by flooding during the annual Northeast Monsoon, but this year’s rains have been particularly bad.

Senior Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition partner MCA and its opposition counterpart the DAP have both called on PAS to drop its hudud plans and instead focus on solving the flood problem in the state.

DAP leaders like Lim Kit Siang and Tony Pua have both accused PAS of acting unilaterally and ignoring the spirit of co-operation between the three component parties as embodied in its common policy framework, which excludes any plan on hudud.

While some analysts believe PR could survive the hudud ordeal, others believe PAS and DAP’s opposing stands on the matter suggest an irreconcilable difference that may boil to the surface should PR wrest federal power.

In Islamic jurisprudence, hudud covers crimes such as theft, robbery, adultery, rape and sodomy. Punishments for the crimes are severe, including amputation, flogging and death by stoning.