DAP has described BN's overtures for a dialogue with PAS as an attempt to sow discord (batu api) among the members of Pakatan Rakyat.

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said BN's deliberate exclusion of PKR and DAP from the dialogue was aimed at splitting the coalition in a bid to arrest its rise.

"BN tries to split Pakatan by pitting DAP, PAS and PKR against one another.

"But when that has failed, it now wants a dialogue, but only with PAS and without DAP or PKR.

"Do they think that we are stupid?" Lim, who is also chief minister of Penang, said in his opening speech at the 17th Selangor DAP ordinary convention this morning.

PAS' Kelantan Menteri Besar Ahmad Yakob met with Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak last month, but Ahmad insisted that it was only about state matters.

Since then, Umno had also made several overtures to PAS for dialogue, but the Islamist party has yet to make a decision on this.

Aside from the selective dialogue that Lim said was to split Pakatan, he added that the government was also using the Registrar of Societies (ROS) to get at DAP.

He pointed to the ROS' refusal to accept the party's election results, even after the re-election had already been conducted on the instruction of ROS.

"We have had enough, ROS. We are not going to 'play' with ROS anymore. We will fight ROS," Lim said.

'Selective persecution'

Later at the convention, an emergency motion was tabled to condemn ROS for 'selective persecution' of DAP.
 
When debating the motion, Puchong MP Gobind Deo Singh said the DAP will take the ROS to court if it still refuses to recognise the new DAP leadership.
 
The motion was passed by a majority of delegates. A total of 699 of 1221 delegates were present today.
 
The delegates will also decide Selangor DAP's new leadership line-up today and the results are expected to be announced later today.