KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 26 — The Kelantan government will likely postpone the special assembly sitting to amend its hudud enactment due to the worsening floods in the state, PAS secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali predicted today.

Mustafa said, however, that the matter will be decided by the Kelantan PAS government with the state Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yaakob expected to make the announcement over the weekend.

“I have a huge feeling that the sitting will be postponed as the floods would make it difficult for people to travel in Kota Baru.

“But that is just my opinion... you have to wait for the MB himself to make the announcement,” Mustafa told a press conference at the party’s headquarters here.

The PAS secretary-general also announced that the briefing on the special sitting on the Islamic penal code scheduled for Sunday will be postponed indefinitely, raising the possibility that the special assembly may also not take place on Monday.

“Judging from the possible absence of leaders due to the floods, I would like to announce that the briefing will be postponed to a date to be determined later,” he said.

Earlier today Malay Mail Online reported that 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.

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.

PAS’ refusal to call off the special sitting has drawn strong criticism from the likes of MCA and the DAP, who called on the Kelantan government to focus more on solving the flood situation instead of pushing for hudud.