PAS, Umno form committee for common ground, says Mohamad Hasan

Mohd Farhan Darwis Mohd Farhan Darwis Updated 5 years ago · Published on 5 Mar 2019 6:39PM · 6 Comments

UMNO and PAS have formed a technical committee to forge a common front in their quest to unite the Malay Muslim community, said Mohamad Hasan.

The Umno deputy president said the committee will be jointly chaired by vice-presidents from both parties.

He said Umno will be represented by Khaled Nordin and PAS by Idris Ahmad.

Mohamad said the committee will have five members from both sides and will include representatives from civil society groups and prominent individuals.

“This is not to merge the parties. It is to work together and find common ground. We will not be using a new symbol either to contest elections,” he said today after a meeting with the PAS leaders at Umno’s headquarters.

During the two-hour meeting, both sides agreed to continue to work together in future by elections.

The parties also agreed to ramp up cooperation in Parliament and provide better checks and balances to the Pakatan Harapan government.

“We will support the government if it benefits the people, and oppose government policies that do not benefit the people,” said Mohamad.

He said Umno will share its decision today with fellow Barisan Nasional components MCA and MIC, while PAS will do the same with its allies in Gagasan Sejahtera.

PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (front) enters Umno's headquarters at Menara Dato' Onn in Kuala Lumpur. Mohamad says the committee is not to merge the parties, but to work together and find common ground. - The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, March 5, 2019.

Mohamad said the BN lynchpin’s cooperation with PAS is not aimed at sidelining MCA and MIC.

“This meeting is not to unite Malays against non-Malays. We want to unite Malays and Bumiputeras first, and this strength will also benefit non-Malays.”

He added that the technical committee will meet in a month’s time.

PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said both parties’ grassroots support the cooperation, pointing to the Cameron Highlands and Semenyih by-elections, where the PAS-Umno tie-up led to victories for BN.

He said PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang supports the move to find common ground with Umno.

“We are here with our president’s mandate. There should not be any issues over his absence here today.”

At the meeting, the Islamist party was represented by Tuan Ibrahim, secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan, Youth chief Khalil Abdul Hadi and central leadership committee members.

Umno was represented by Youth chief Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, Wanita head Noraini Ahmad and several Supreme Council members. – March 5, 2019.

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  • MCA and MIC....go bang balls laah. Still won't leave and want to discuss. No pride, no dignity no nothing

    Posted 5 years ago by Mo Salleh · Reply

  • Well, Mat Sabu has predicted this long time ago. So, wasn't really news.

    Posted 5 years ago by Luke Skywalker · Reply

  • The speeches given by Nazri, MH, Asyraf, and the PAS leaders during the by-elections already revealed who you really are. The greatest racists in Malaysia. No point trying to psycho people lah.

    Posted 5 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • MIC and MCA are the real fools! They have been taken for granted, ignored, stepped on, spat at, got all the screwing and yet the moneys are like dogs.. going back to their UMNO master for food!
    Real stupid cows! I dont know why they are still hanging around when the message is already clear. Unless they have some other agenda.

    Posted 5 years ago by Kampung Boy · Reply

  • Common ground - both opposition and full of corrupted leaders

    Posted 5 years ago by SY L · Reply

  • Umno and PAS forge to form a common ground for Malay and Muslim all in the guise of unity. !!!!!!!!!!!! Really !!!!!!!!!!. What a baloney !!! more for further sharing of loots ??????????????? Matter of factly it is none other than you two parties that have caused Malays to loose their pride where lies and robbing are now sharia compliant. The total loss of the beautiful Nusantara cultures to Arabisation are too overwheming and gone for good. The Malays are bullshitted in the practises of true version of Islam where the man made version from Umno are in place to create a long term bondage and held in ransom by fear while another version by PAS more towards ultra conservative approach of Talibanisation but ridiculously both Umno and PAS dirty palms are desecrating the holy book of Koran in their endless hideous guilt of lies and corruption and some even to felony. Your own language of Bahasa Melayu are bastardised to rojak comprising "I" "You" English and now flavourised with Arabic interjection phrases to show some religious leaning of no purposes . So what are you two party clowning about now ????? What pieces of shits are you selling to the Malay race. Only the shameless Malays that do not give a damn to their own Malay culture , religion and love for the country will blindly follow the Umno pirates and PAS devil disciples. These are the discarded Malays who are devoided in any self respect and only concern for "what is in for me" and will foolishly let their own country burns without a thinge of remorse. What an audacious or should I say more to a stupefying moronic partnership. Just to gain traction in winning any by-election by this actions are only a flash in the pan for when the leaders are convicted the party members will be running around like headless chicken in frenzy state before their demise.

    Posted 5 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply