PAS rubbishes claims of DAP-PKR influence in new line-up
PAS leaders say that outsiders have no credibility to interpret the party’s election results.
(Free Malaysia Today) – PAS leaders today brushed aside comments that the new progressive line up of leaders are more pro-Anwar Ibrahim and that the Islamic party had compromised on its Islamic principles.
“Outsiders have no credibility to interpret what happens in the the party internally,” said Youth wing chief Nasharudin Hasan Tantawi who retained his post in yesterday’s polls.
“These people have always made these kinds of allegations since a long time ago. Let PAS handle the party’s domestic issues,” he said in a press conference at the sideline of the party’s muktamar.
Umno leader Mukhriz Mahathir had yesterday sarcastically congratulated DAP and PKR for “managing to influence PAS to the extend that non-ulamaks were voted as the deputy and vice presidents”.
He added that this reflected that PAS was a party that was not free from influences that are contrary to the teachings of Islam.
He was further quoted as saying in a Bernama report that the new party line-up did not have many ulamaks and this may jeopardise its plan to establish an Islamic state.
Utusan senior editor Zulkiflee Bakar also shared Mukhriz’s sentiments in his editorial in Mingguan Malaysia today.
Nasharudin dismissed these claims by arguing that the partnership with DAP and PKR was a political partnership approved by the party’s religious council, Majlis Syurah, adding that ulamaks were not being sidelined.
