Kit Siang and Hadi in heated exchange

SUNGAI BESAR: As polling day nears, DAP and PAS have gotten into more heated exchanges over the break-up of Pakatan Rakyat.

In his latest salvo, DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang claimed that the PAS president had refused to accept Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as Pakatan’s candidate for Prime Minister as he himself wanted to be the premier.

“When (Datuk Seri Abdul) Hadi Awang found that two other parties in Pakatan would not endorse him as Prime Minister, he had no use for it and decided on a new political course for PAS led by him,” he said in a statement here yesterday.

He then accused Abdul Hadi of “acting” as an adviser to Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, even when this required him to ignore the controversies.

Lim was responding to a warning by Abdul Hadi during a ceramah in Sungai Besar for voters not to elect the wrong MP or they would suffer divine punishment.

The Marang MP said that electing lawmakers was a religious obligation and the voters would be responsible for any action committed by their elected representative in Dewan Rakyat.

“I would like to remind the people that an election is a responsibility and an obligation for the people to choose a leader to represent their voice.

“We will be responsible for anything that the leader says and does. If he says something that is wrong, then we are the ones who have sinned and are damned,” he said during a ceramah here on Sunday night.

Abdul Hadi had recently tabled a Private Member’s Bill to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Juris­diction) Act in the last Parliament meeting.