PETALING JAYA: Sarawak PAS Secretary Muthar Suhaili has taken a swipe at DAP, labelling the party as opportunistic and only willing to maintain friendly ties with others if the arrangement is to their benefit
In an article appearing in party organ Harakah, Muthar said DAP had left both Barisan Alternatif (BA) and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in the lurch when it felt it could no longer use the Opposition coalitions to further its own agenda.
He said DAP had become increasingly egoistic since it won most of the 15 seats it contested in the 2011 state election, and was now hungry to contest 30 seats instead.
Muthar said that the first time PAS contested in Sarawak in 2001 as part of the Barisan Alternatif coalition, its then ally, DAP, pulled out of the coalition on the grounds that the Islamist party was pushing for an Islamic nation.
Muthar claimed, however, that DAP pulled out because it felt PAS would not be of any benefit to it in the state election.
He said history repeated itself in 2014 when there was talk that Sarawak would hold its state election that year.
“Sarawak DAP saw that PAS would not benefit it in the Sarawak election and on Oct 18, 2014, decided to stop all communications with PAS and PKR, but remained within PR all the same.”
Muthar added that on March 27, 2015, Sarawak DAP announced it was pulling out of PR, once again breaking ties with PAS and PKR in protest against PAS’s intention to implement hudud in Kelantan, which he claimed had nothing whatsoever to do with politics in Sarawak.