By Yeo Bee Yin, State Assemblywoman for Damansara Utama

We were surprised to receive the news that UMNO’s Sungai Air Tawar assemblymen Kamarol Zaki Abdul Malik has submitted a motion to study the implementation of Hudud law in Selangor for debate in the coming state assembly sitting.

DAP has been firm on our stand in this issue. As the State Assemblyperson of Selangor, I would like to express my stand that multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-religious Malaysia should always be a secular country with the Federal Constitution as the supreme law of the land, as what our founding fathers had intended the country to be. Therefore, to preserve the secular nature of the country, I will use my voting right in the Selangor state assembly to reject the implementation of religious laws irrespective of which religion.

Since PAS suggested tabling a private member bill on Hudud in the parliament, MCA Youth has launched a nationwide “Say No to PAS Hudud” campaign with roadshows, signature drives, forums and so on. They have also held demonstrations in front of the PAS headquarters.

Now that their partner in the coalition UMNO has also mooted Hudud to be studied in Selangor, will MCA now turn the “Say No to PAS Hudud” campaign to “Say No to UMNO Hudud” campaign in Selangor? Will MCA now hold a demonstration in front of UMNO Selangor headquarters to speak against this motion?

Following the issue, the MCA Youth Chief, Chong Sin Woon, has issued a statement to call their partner for a ‘meeting and discussion’.

To show their sincerity against Hudud, MCA Youth should not hesitate to launch similar campaign and demonstration against UMNO in the event that the ‘meeting and discussion’ fails.