In spite of a clear gag order not to speak about the Selangor menteri besar controversy, PAS leaders are continuing to make statements backing Khalid Ibrahim.

One of them, PAS central committee member Nasrudin Hassan, even compared Khalid's possible sacking from PKR to Umno's sacking of current PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim in 1998.

 

"Is Anwar going to do to Khalid what (former prime minister) Mahathir (Mohamad) did to Anwar?" Nasrudin ( left ), who is the Temerloh MP, asked in a Facebook posting today.

 

He even went as far as signing off as part of a movement called Gerak 2.0 to defend Khalid at all costs.

When Anwar was sacked from Umno, a movement called Gerak was launched then to protest against Anwar's imprisonment under the security law.

 

"If Khalid is sacked by Anwar from the MB post under the pretext of several allegations, it is fair for PAS led by (president) Hadi Awang to rise and protect Khalid through Gerak 2.0!" Nasruddin wrote further.

 

Gag order

But his statement did not go down well with readers and seemingly some PAS supporters.

 

Several commentators reminded Nasrudin of the gag order and flayed him for still airing his views in public without waiting for the party central committee meeting to decide on the matter.

 

"Don't come out with anymore statements YB, the more you write the more people know about your immaturity in politics and this spoils the PAS image, which took years to build.

"After this, don't expect people to vote for you again in an election," said a commentator by the name of Annuar Che Lat.

Others asked him to wait for the PAS meeting on Sunday to air his views and not out in the open as on social media.

 

“PAS has president, deputy president, vice-presidents all of them are relaxed...you should follow the examples of other leaders, wait for the meeting before speaking,” said Zulhilmi Ahmad.

But some were quick to defend Nasruddin. Facebook user ‘Penggolek Kambing’ said those who posted negative comments, were PKR cybertroopers who were worse than Umno's.

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