DAP's effort to convince non-Muslim voters to back Pakatan Rakyat had inadvertently led to PAS pursuing its once dormant agenda to implement hudud law in the country, said PPP president M Kayveas.

"PAS went ahead because DAP had given them strength. When PAS was alone, they didn't have the courage," Kayveas told Malaysiakini. "If anyone is to blame, it is DAP."

On Wednesday, PAS moved one step closer to implementing hudud law in Kelantan after securing Umno's support in the unanimous passing of the bill to amend the Syariah Criminal Code II Enactment 1993.

Next, PAS must convince Parliament to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965, which limits punishments imposed by the Syariah Court to no more than three years imprisonment, a fine of up to RM5,000 and six strokes of the rotan for certain offences.

Although some legal experts believe that PAS must also amend the Federal Constitution in order to implement hudud law, the party is adamant that the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965, which can be amended with a simple majority vote, is the final hurdle.

No uniform policy

Kayveas lamented that DAP had helped PAS open the floodgates for other states to emulate Kelantan.

He said DAP could have taken more drastic measures before the bill was passed on Wednesday to stop its Pakatan Rakyat partner from pursuing the matter.

"When the late Karpal Singh made his 'over my dead body' statement, he wasn't speaking for himself but all of DAP. But since his death, Lim Guan Eng, Lim Kit Siang and Tony Pua have been silent about hudud.

"They only talk about irrelevant issues in order to distract the public from the hudud issue. If they had pulled out of Pakatan, PAS would have dropped it," said Kayveas, who has led PPP for 22 years and is currently special advisor to the transport minister.

He said that the entire episode had proven that Pakatan does not have a uniform policy for all states and that voters have been deceived.

"They don't have uniform policies and only sleep together during election time. That's why I have told Parliament in the past that they are a 'one night stand' party," he said.