DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang believes it will be the end of Pakatan Rakyat should PAS unilaterally push for the implementation of hudud come Monday.

Lim said the Dec 29 special Kelantan state assembly sitting will be a point of no return for both BN and Pakatan.

“But it will be a point of no return not only for BN, it will also be a point of no return for Pakatan as there is no way Pakatan can survive in its present form after one of its component parties could act so unilaterally as to show utter contempt for the other Pakatan parties and Pakatan’s common policy framework,” he said in a statement today.

The Gelang Patah MP said it was a “fallacy” to contend that Pakatan had reached an agreement that PAS and DAP had “agreed to disagree” on the hudud issue.

“There was never such an agreement,” said Lim, pointing out that hudud was not part of the Pakatan joint common policy framework until all parties agreed to it.

“The meaning and implication is very clear, that PAS will not unilaterally push for the implementation of hudud without the agreement of all Pakatan Rakyat parties,” he stressed.

The Kelantan PAS government is set to hold a special state assembly sitting on Monday to speed up hudud implementation in the state.

Among its agendas is to table an amendment on the Syariah Criminal Laws Act II 1993 (Amended 2014).

Most radical transformation for BN?

Kelantan Menteri Besar Ahmad Yakob had said that the amendment was part of the procedure by the state government, before tabling a Private Member’s Bill in Parliament to seek approval for Kelantan to enforce hudud.

Meanwhile, Lim noted that BN would undergo its most radical transformation if Kelantan Umno assemblypersons are allowed to vote in support of the proposal to implement hudud on Monday.

This is especially so if it is done without any meeting of the BN supreme council or any effort by the other BN component parties to ask Umno to stay loyal to the commitments of the founding fathers of the party, Lim said.

Lim also showed charts which illustrated how the 1999, 2008 and 2013 general elections were high water-marks for the opposition parties in the peninsula.

“I had said that if hudud had been a hot controversial issue in the 13th general election, BN would not only have regained its two-thirds parliamentary majority to redelineate electoral constituencies at will, Pakatan might have lost Selangor - apart from Kedah - and Johor would have reverted as an invincible BN ‘fixed-deposit’ state.

“Instead of winning a total of 89 parliamentary seats, the results could have been slashed to 46 seats,” he added.

Admitting that it would be “sad and heart-rending” should such a political scenario come to pass, Lim, however, noted that Malaysians must be prepared to face the unavoidable.

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