I CONGRATULATE PAS president Tan Sri Hadi Awang for not suffering from the intellectual inadequacy of mistaking my personal suggestion that PAS should join Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government for an official DAP or government invitation.
But this also showed that all the other PAS leaders, including its Mursyidul Am, its deputy president and its information chief did not know what their president was talking about.
If other PAS leaders do not know what their president was talking about, it is expected that the other political parties in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition – including Bersatu – have no idea what the PAS president was talking about.
I have in fact not met Anwar who is the 10th prime minister (PM) for any discussion since he took over Putrajaya last November.
Hadi said yesterday (June 1) that the offer to join unity government was made after the 15th General Election (GE15) and that there had not been any offers to join the Anwar unity government since.
Hadi was probably referring to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s (YDPA) proposal for an unity government between Pakatan Harapan (PH) and PN during the King’s audience with political leaders on Nov 22 last year which was rejected by PN before Anwar was sworn in as the PMX on Nov 24.
It was irresponsible and dishonest for Hadi to claim recently that “certain individuals” had “repeatedly” reached out to him to collaborate with the Anwar unity government when this happened some seven months ago during the YDPA’s audience on Nov 22 and it was even more irresponsible and dishonest for other PAS leaders to echo Hadi’s talk as if they were recent occurrences.
This incident has only highlighted why Hadi is not a responsible, honest and respected Islamic leader as he not only made wild and preposterous allegations which he was unable to substantiate for months, but he could also spark a controversy that PAS was recently invited to join the Anwar unity government when it did not happened at all. – June 2, 2023
Retired DAP supremo and former Iskandar Puteri MP Lim Kit Siang, 82, has a colourful political career spanning 57 years.
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