Pakatan lodges police report over Hadi’s alleged defiance against sultan


Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah Raja Ahmad (pictured) says Abdul Hadi Awang’s statement is in clear defiance of the Terengganu sultan’s decree. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 8, 2023.

TERENGGANU Pakatan Harapan has lodged a police report against PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang for allegedly issuing a statement defying the sultan of Terengganu’s decree on religious talks at mosques and surau in the state.

Its chairman, Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah Raja Ahmad, said this was in connection with Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin’s decree on March 2 prohibiting politicians from delivering sermons and lectures at all mosques and surau in the state, as stated in a statement issued by the Terengganu Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council (Maidam).

“Soon after Maidam issued the order, Hadi arrogantly made a statement that he would continue to give religious lectures at mosques as usual,” he told reporters after lodging the report at the Kuala Terengganu district police headquarters today.

“The statement is in clear defiance of the sultan’s decree, which is aimed at protecting the sanctity of the mosque and surau institution from political influence.”

Raja Kamarul claimed that Hadi’s statement could undermine public order as he was an influential individual who held the post of Terengganu menteri besar from 1999 to 2004.

In the Maidam statement, its president, Shaikh Harun Shaikh Ismail, said the ban covered all state assemblymen, members of parliament and senators. – Bernama, March 8, 2023.


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