DAP should not equate PAS' attempt to introduce hudud with its attempts to introduce local council elections in Penang because local council elections are not among DAP's "core" struggles, a PAS leader said today.

 

"Hudud is the core of PAS' struggle and that is why we are trying to introduce it, but local council elections are nothing, it's not DAP's main struggle or main core," the party's deputy spiritual leader Haron Din was quoted as saying by Utusan Malaysia today.

 

Haron's comments come as PAS continues to oppose DAP's local council elections agenda, just days after PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang warned that having local council elections could lead to racial riots, like May 13 riots of 1969.

 

Haron agreed with his president that elections can cause disharmony and bring about "bad ramifications".

 

‘Iron out differences’

 

Meanwhile, DAP's Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng asked Pakatan Rakyat leaders to stop trading comments against one another publicly, but to iron out differences behind closed doors.

 

"I humbly request that all leaders to stop attacking one another, especially now as all eyes are on us as we approach halfway of our term," Lim ( left ) said.

 

He said it was "embarrassing" for the people to watch Pakatan leaders trade statements.

 

However, Lim also questioned the "motives" behind PAS' attacks on the local council elections plan.

 

"I have read their statements and I am very shocked by their tone," he said.

 

DAP had earlier consistently criticised PAS for trying to implement hudud in Kelantan without obtaining consensus from Pakatan partners.