PAS will not be cowed by DAP in its effort to implement the Syariah Criminal Code (II) Enactment 1993, or hudud in Kelantan.

PAS assistant secretary-general Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan

suggested that DAP should leave Pakatan Rakyat if they disagreed to the struggle of PAS.

He said DAP could not bar PAS from implementing the law in Kelantan because Pakatan, which was set up in 2008, did not belong to DAP.

"Pakatan does not belong to DAP, Pakatan does not have a leader, if (DAP) disagrees, it should leave Pakatan, why ask us to leave, and they cannot make us (PAS) leave," he told reporters here, today.

Takiyuddin (left), who is also Member of Parliament for Kota Bharu and Permanent Chief Secretariat of the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code, was responding to a statement by Puchong Member of Parliament Gobind Singh Deo on the implementation of hudud in the state.

Newspapers reported Gobind as giving a warning in his statement recently that PAS would not be seen as part of Pakatan if the party tabled the bill on hudud next month because its implementation did not receive the support of its allies in Pakatan.

The special sitting of the Kelantan state assembly from March 16 to 19 was to amend the Syariah Criminal Code (II) Enactment, Kelantan 1993.

Takiyuddin said no party in Pakatan, whether DAP or PKR could bar PAS from implementing the law in Kelantan because the enactment was approved in 1993 by the Kelantan State Assembly, before Pakatan existed.

He said DAP and PKR were aware of the implementation of hudud because it had been discussed at Pakatan top leadership meeting, and also DAP in 2011.

Meanwhile, Kelantan Deputy Menteri Besar Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah

reiterated the stand of the Kelantan government not to bow to the pressure of DAP but was eager to implement the law.

- Bernama