KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 — The Barisan Nasional (BN) federal government was aware and even greenlighted PAS-led Kelantan’s amendments to the hudud enactment before the proposal was presented and passed in the state legislative assembly last week, a lawmaker from the Islamist party claimed today.
Datuk Mohd Takiyuddin Hassan, who is head of Kelantan’s permanent secretariat on hudud, said that details of the amendments were presented and agreed upon at the state’s joint committee on hudud with the federal government.
“Federal (government) had agreed.
“After that, Marang MP brought the motion for the private members’ bill,” the Kota Baru MP told reporters, referring to PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang.
“I can confirm that the amendments to the enactment brought to the Kelantan state assembly have been agreed upon,” Takiyuddin added.
Yesterday, DAP pilloried PAS president Hadi for his party’s hudud push, saying it will no longer work with him even as it vowed to remain in the Pakatan Rakyat pact.
The DAP’s central executive committee that met on Monday night accused Hadi of cooperating with Umno on hudud, in violation of the pact’s common consensus and Common Policy Framework.
The decision will prevent the PR presidential council from carrying out any policy decisions as a consensus agreement is required, but will leave the state administrations of Selangor and Penang undisturbed.
On March 19, PAS-ruled Kelantan passed key amendments to its Shariah Criminal Code II 1993 in a move to enable the eventual implementation of hudud in the Malay-majority east coast state.
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.
With DAP and PKR’s rejection, PAS and its 21 MPs in the lower House must rely on all of Umno’s MPs plus more from other non-Muslim parties in order to get a simple majority of 112 votes to get the Bill passed.
