Hadi glad PAS snubbed Bersih 5, calls rally harmful

(MMO) – PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said he is happy with his party’s decision not to join the Bersih 5 rally as such demonstrations were disruptive and brought about only negative implications.

Berita Harian quoted Hadi as saying that the rally was a burden on the people and that it was badly managed by its organisers.

“We see that there was not one good measure taken to adhere to the law to ensure peace whereby peace is right of all (people).

“You can demonstrate but there is a proper way to do so. We don’t want demonstrations that cause clashes, which are detrimental to the people,” Hadi was quoted saying when met at the sidelines of the Terengganu state assembly session yesterday.

More than 10,000 people took to the streets of the capital city yesterday at the fifth edition of polls reform group Bersih 2.0’s demonstrations to protest against corruption.

Though the Bersih 5 demonstration ended peacefully without incident, several opposition leaders were arrested shortly after.

Bersih 2.0 chairman Maria Chin Abdullah has been detained since Friday under an anti-terrorism law, the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012.