The gloves are off in Pakatan Rakyat, as DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng accuses PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang of making up excuses to justify turning his back on Pakatan.

Firing salvos in a statement, Lim accused Hadi of being an Umno “trojan horse” to break up Pakatan and said Hadi is better on his own.

"If Hadi is honourable and honest about his intentions to surreptitiously pursue the implementation of hudud laws in violation and defiance of the Pakatan consensus he himself had agreed to, then he should not have joined PR but go on his own," he said.

"PR’s survival should not be held hostage by one man who can publicly declare his absolute right to betray both DAP and PKR."

He said Hadi’s outcry that DAP betrayed PAS on local government elections is an “after-thought” since no one objected if for the two years since the decision was made.

"Unlike Hadi who failed to even discuss with the Pakatan leadership, I had personally called up PKR and PAS leaders, including Hadi himself, two years ago about implementing local government election in Penang," Lim said.

Instead, he said, Hadi is the one who “deceitful” and who "blithely breaks his promises as and when he likes" and unilaterally violate the Pakatan consensus and common policy framework by working with Umno.

Lim said Hadi's unilateral decision to table a private members’ bill to allow the implementation of hudud laws in the current Parliament sitting as "a final act of treachery".

Lim, who is also Penang chief minister said Hadi twisted DAP leaders’ words when he claimed that DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang “agreed to disagree” on hudud.

"Let me remind Hadi that the joint statement in 2011 merely acknowledged that the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Enactment 1993 and the Terengganu Syariah Criminal Enactment 2003 were passed before the formation of Pakatan Rakyat in 2008," Lim said.

DAP last year failed to assert its plan following a Federal Court ruling that the state has no jurisdiction to conduct its own local polls.

24 local councillors for the municipalities of Penang Island and Seberang Perai are currently appointed by the state, with PAS taking two seats in each council.

Earlier this year, Hadi broke his silence on the third vote by saying that local government elections could spark race riots like on May 13, 1969.