TELUK INTAN DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng has declared its Teluk Intan by-election candidate, Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, as the better choice than BN's Mah Siew Keong if voters there did not want to see hudud implementation

This, he said, was because Mah was more likely to cave in to Umno's demands.

"Mah would likely have to toe the Umno line. As a matter of record, Gerakan has always blindly supported Umno’s positions on all issues, especially during the voting of bills in Parliament or state assemblies," Lim said in a statement today.

The statement came in response to Gerakan's Simpang Renggam MP Liang Teck Meng accusing DAP's candidate ,Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud( above ), of lying when she declared that she will vote against hudud law.

Gerakan, together with MCA, Sarawak United People's Party and Liberal Democratic Party within BN have all declared   they will vote against hudud in Parliament.

Deflecting criticism against DAP on its hudud stance, Lim stressed the party has always been against the theocratic law.

"...Even PAS openly admits that implementing hudud was not in the Pakatan Rakyat 2013 general election manifesto or the PR common policy," he said.

The hudud controversy resurfaced after PAS declared its intention to push for the Islamic law in PAS-led Kelantan but stating that it was the Islamist party's own ambition .

'What is Mah's stance on hudud?'

Lim (l eft ) said in contrast, Umno had spoken on behalf of the 13-component party BN government endorsing hudud.

"In contrast Umno says BN supports implementing hudud whilst the rest of the BN component parties oppose– Can the real BN on hudud please stand up? 

"Or is this another reminder that only Umno’s views count and not the non-Umno BN parties'?, “ he said.

For these reasons, DAP’s parliamentary candidate for Teluk Intan Dyana Sofya is a better person than BN’s Mah Siew Keong in opposing the implementation of hudud because this objective is not in the Pakatan common policy framework," Lim added

He also brushed off Muhyiddin's criticism that DAP had been silent on hudud which was echoed by Gerakan's Liang who claimed the party's other two Malay Muslim MPs have been mum on the issue.

"It is wrong for Muhyiddin to falsely claim that DAP has been silent on this issue when our leaders and our parliamentary candidate have publicly declared their stand. 

"However Muhyidin has been silent on the issue by not daring to declare Mah’s stand on implementing hudud," said Lim.

Dyana had in an interview with  Malaysiakini  said she was not opposed to hudud but will not support it in Parliament as was it was not feasible to implement in multi-racial Malaysia.

DAP's Raub MP Raub MP Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz, like Dyana, had said he was not opposed to hudud but would vote against it in Parliament unless PAS can secure support to change the Federal Constitution.

Bayan Baru MP Zairil Khir Johari has yet to publicly declare his stand on the issue.