Guan Eng calls Tian Chua ‘irresponsible, unethical’ for lying over hudud issue
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- Guan Eng calls Tian Chua ‘irresponsible, unethical’ for lying over hudud issue
The DAP has trained its guns at PKR vice-president Tian Chua for "lying" that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and the DAP had agreed to PAS implementing hudud only in Kelantan and Terengganu.
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng (pic) said the party considers it "irresponsible, wrong and unethical" for Tian Chua to drag the DAP into adopting his stand of supporting PAS in implementing hudud laws within the borders of Kelantan and Terengganu, but not in other parts of Malaysia.
He said DAP leaders were shocked when Tian Chua declared in Chinese newspapers that implementing hudud laws in Kelantan and Terengganu is PR policy because it was agreed to by PR and DAP.
"Tian Chua’s lies were given wide coverage in the mainstream media despite it not being supported by facts or documentation.
"I have personally spoken to opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim conveying the DAP top leadership’s anger at the lies spread by Tian Chua," he said in a statement today.
Anwar had reaffirmed in both his private conversation with me and public statements yesterday that DAP had consistently opposed the implementation of hudud laws on Muslims in Kelantan, he said.
"DAP leaders hope that Tian Chua will stop repeating such lies in view of Anwar publicly reaffirming that DAP had never agreed to the implementation of hudud laws by PAS anywhere," he said.
Lim said PR operates on a consensus basis with all three parties in the DAP, PKR and PAS having to agree before a policy becomes a policy by the coalition.
Therefore, PAS’s policy of implementing hudud laws on Muslims in Kelantan is not a PR policy because of DAP’s firm stand in opposing the implementation of hudud laws has not changed, he said.
"Tian Chua and other non-Muslim PKR leaders have every right to support PAS implementing hudud laws on Muslims in Kelantan.
"However they should not drag DAP down to the same level as them to justify their support for PAS," he said.
Lim, who is Penang chief minister, said PAS leaders should focus on economic management and good governance, which will be the decisive factor in winning or losing elections.
PR had recorded successes in the 2008 general elections because of Umno’s failure in economic management and good governance leading to corruption and abuses of power, he said.
"PAS won in the 2008 general elections without campaigning on implementing hudud laws.
"PAS should remember that Umno also won more Malay votes in 2013 while it did not support the implementation of hudud," he said.
Lim said Umno won more seats and Muslim votes in the general election last year, despite Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak declaring on September 25 in 2011 that Putrajaya will not enforce Hudud law.
"However, Najib has now flip-flopped on the BN government’s previous position, from not enforcing the Hudud law to publicly lauding PAS’s proposals to implement Hudud law. He is willing to meet PAS leaders to discuss this.
"Clearly, Umno has no principles and is now supporting the implementation of hudud to set up a devious political trap for PAS, that pits PAS against DAP with the sole intention of breaking up PR.
"If Umno can win elections and Malay votes without campaigning on implementing hudud laws, PAS can do the same.
"Focusing on issues of livelihood, the economy, employment and educational opportunities will determine who wins the next general election," he said. – April 30, 2014.
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