BERA – PAS and Umno must avoid insulting or hurling attacks against one another, said caretaker prime minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
He said not only is this prohibited under Islam, but the two parties also used to have ties under Muafakat Nasional, which have now become strained.
“We shouldn’t be attacking each other because these ties may be rekindled again in the future. In politics, we are not forever enemies, and it is not forever that we are friends, and as such, we should avoid hurting other people’s feelings.
“Who knows, one day we will sit together again for the sake of the Muslim ummah and the Malays in the country. If we make baseless allegations, it will only create animosity for one another,” he said to reporters after launching the P090 Bera Barisan Nasional (BN) machinery.
Prior to that, the Umno vice-president opened the Bera Umno divisional meeting at the Bera District Council Convention Hall here.
The caretaker prime minister said this in response to PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang’s statement on Friday that PAS had suspended cooperation with Barisan Nasional (BN) because the coalition was tainted by corruption.
Hadi made the statement a day after BN chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said that Umno and BN had decided to go solo in the upcoming 15th general election (GE15).
Meanwhile, Ismail Sabri, who is also the Bera Umno division leader, hinted in his speech that he would defend the parliamentary seat he had won since 2004 in GE15, if agreed upon by the party leadership.
He reminded the party machinery to unite and work together to ensure victory for all BN candidates, regardless of whether they are from Umno, MCA or MIC. – Bernama, October 16, 2022
