KOTA
BARU: Only five of the 30-member PAS central leadership has shown
interest in the Malay unity talks proposed by Umno, according to a
senior party leader.
“The proposal is not likely to go anywhere,” PAS Supporters Club adviser Hu Pang Chaw told FMT today.
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“Only a few members of the central working committee (CWC) have
spoken about it with any eagerness. I know of five. There may be one or
two more, but the total is definitely fewer than eight.”
He said most of the five came from the Syura Council.
All 10 members of the council are religious scholars. They form part of the CWC.
Hu believes that most of the proponents of PAS-Umno talks were motivated more by the desire for political support than by any attachment to a nationalist or religious ideology.
He pointed out that both PAS and Umno would hold party elections soon. “And there is nothing grander in politics that to unite one’s community.”
The proposal was on the backburner for a couple of years until it was revived soon after the recent general election. Most of the politicians who have been making public statements about it come from Umno.
The only noteworthy PAS figure advocating it is Nasharuddin Mat Isa, a former deputy president of the party whom most observers now dismiss as an exile in political wilderness.
Pakatan Rakyat supporters who are wary of Umno’ intentions are likely to welcome Hu’s statement.
However, according to sources, not all is well in PAS. They say the leadership is divided over the extent of support the party should lend to the Black 505 rallies helmed by opposition icon Anwar Ibrahim.
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“The proposal is not likely to go anywhere,” PAS Supporters Club adviser Hu Pang Chaw told FMT today.
“Only a few members of the central working committee (CWC) have
spoken about it with any eagerness. I know of five. There may be one or
two more, but the total is definitely fewer than eight.”He said most of the five came from the Syura Council.
All 10 members of the council are religious scholars. They form part of the CWC.
Hu believes that most of the proponents of PAS-Umno talks were motivated more by the desire for political support than by any attachment to a nationalist or religious ideology.
He pointed out that both PAS and Umno would hold party elections soon. “And there is nothing grander in politics that to unite one’s community.”
The proposal was on the backburner for a couple of years until it was revived soon after the recent general election. Most of the politicians who have been making public statements about it come from Umno.
The only noteworthy PAS figure advocating it is Nasharuddin Mat Isa, a former deputy president of the party whom most observers now dismiss as an exile in political wilderness.
Pakatan Rakyat supporters who are wary of Umno’ intentions are likely to welcome Hu’s statement.
However, according to sources, not all is well in PAS. They say the leadership is divided over the extent of support the party should lend to the Black 505 rallies helmed by opposition icon Anwar Ibrahim.