PAS, DAP answer UMNO’s stooge allegation
(Harakah Daily) – PAS and DAP leaders have dismissed accusations by UMNO of their parties being undermined and acting as stooge for each other, with PAS president Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang telling a gathering last night that it was better to ignore the taunts.
“It’s time to change, just ignore the taunting of ‘PAS being used as a horse’ or ‘DAP being exploited by PAS.
That is still better than UMNO which is like a cow awaiting slaughter,” Hadi said to applause from some 10,000 people converged at the ‘Rapat Rakyat’ programme in Stadium Melawati, Shah Alam.
Hadi said that PAS, together with Pakatan Rakyat partners PKR and DAP, has a common objective to achieve justice and erase racism.
“We stay together to build a stronger racial relationship which has failed under UMNO-BN’s 50 yearsrule. This has been due to UMNO culture of prioritising Malays and sidelining Islam. Their struggle is to safeguard their leaders by fanning racial sentiments, not to save the country,” said Hadi.
DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang meanwhile pointed out that UMNO and MCA were adjusting their racist agenda for their respective audience.
This includes UMNO telling Malay that PAS was being exploited by DAP, and MCA, namely its president Chua Soi Lek, accusing the DAP of being a PAS stooge.
“Who has lied? Najib and Muhyiddin or Chua Soi Lek?” Lim asked in a statement, and said that Chua, UMNO president Najib Razak and his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin had all lied.
No ‘Big Brother’ in PR
Lim stressed that Pakatan Rakyat was a coalition of equal political parties based on mutual respect and political consensus founded on common policy programmes.
“In Pakatan Rakyat, no political party plays the role of Big Brother like UMNO in Barisan Nasional – which means that Najib, Muhyiddin and Chua have all been perpetuating lies in their struggle to keep their political parties alive in the next general election,” he added.
On the now familiar allegation that Malays would lose power should Pakatan Rakyat wins the next general election, Lim countered by saying, “Those who will really lose power will be UMNO and UMNO-putras.”
