KUALA LUMPUR: MIC Youth will set up a special committee of representatives from 25 Indian youth based non-governmental organisations to check on PAS' future moves on hudud.
Although welcoming PAS' decision to defer the tabling of the Private Member's Bill on the implementation of hudud in Kelantan, MIC youth treasurer Nitesh Malani said there was still a need to know of PAS' goal in implementing the Islamic penal law.
"We welcome PAS' president Hadi Awang's decision to defer the bill.
"However, we will continue to watch closely the move to implement hudud through the special committee," he told reporters at an MIC Youth and NGOs Against Hudud protest at the party's headquarters on Sunday.
He was commenting of a statement by PAS president Datuk Seri Hadi Awang that the party would postpone the tabling of the bill following the formation of a joint technical committee to the study the issue.
Nitesh Malani said the effect of PAS' decision to defer the bill was too early to tell.
Malaysian Indian Youth Council president Reghu Devan Lopez said there was no stopping PAS from tabling the bill in future.
"They (PAS) can say they won't table the bill this sitting in June. This does not mean that they may not try to table the bill in future," he added.
Representatives from the 25 groups, with about 250,000 members nationwide, later held a peaceful protest following a talk by several youth leaders.
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