'The recent hudud debate was given a new lease of life in March 2014 when Minister in Prime Minister Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir dangled the private member’s bill option at the PAS-led Kelantan government.
The discussion between Deputy Menteri Besar Datuk Nik Amar Nik Abdullah and the Federal Government took the form of a "government-to-government" arrangement, thus avoiding the scrutiny of PAS national leadership and the Pakatan Rakyat leaders’ council.
Without having any intention to brief the party’s central committee as well as the Pakatan Rakyat top leaders, the Kelantan PAS leaders was adamant to table the hudud enactment on 29th December 2014. Alas, it was stalled by the great flood of Kelantan which swamped even the state government offices in Kota Baru.
Nik Amar was later instructed by the PAS central leadership to attend the Pakatan Rakyat Leadership Council on February 8, 2015, chaired by Anwar Ibrahim, two days before the de facto PKR chief was jailed.
Nik Amar explained that the exercise was a minor amendment to the 1993 enactment, and Pakatan leaders were assured that they would be allowed to have a look at the draft.
On March 12, 2015, two junior excos of Kelantan were sent to attend the Pakatan Rakyat Leadership Council with "no mandate" to change anything, and allegedly "too late" to do anything.
The purpose was clear. It was meant to present a fait accompli by deception.
It is sad that some people would do such a thing despite the Quranic warning that one should never resort to unfair and dishonest means.'
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