GPS should not be dragged into the quarrel between DAP and PAS

Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) is distancing itself from the spat over electoral boundaries which PAS recently had said are skewed and unfair to predominantly Malay states. I was asked by our media friends to comment on GPS' stand and I have mentioned that we should not be dragged into the quarrel between DAP and PAS. This had evolved after DAP secretary-general, YB Lim Guan Eng had accused us in the Sarawak ruling coalition of betraying Sarawakians by backing Perikatan Nasional (PN) alongside the Islamist party. 

Both DAP and PAS used to be bed partners in Pakatan Rakyat and they should know each other well. "Leave GPS and Bornean parties out of their squabble.” was my response to YB Lim’s comment that GPS, alongside non-Malay parties such as MCA and MIC, should be answerable for any move to redraw electoral borders along racial and religious lines.

This also came on the back of a statement by a PAS leader that the current electoral boundaries are skewed and unfair to predominantly Malay states, citing the number of parliamentary seats represented by Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah and Pahang. PAS’ Khairuddin Aman Razali had also proposed that the boundaries be redrawn so that the states are better representated in the federal legislative. YB Lim reportedly said that proposal amounted to apartheid and a denial of non-Muslim rights. I have dismissed the talk by saying the Election Commission (EC) has its own way of carving out electoral boundaries. No isolated opinion from PAS leaders will change that, and Guan Eng need not lower himself so low to debate on an issue he knows is isolated and not the stand of all Malaysians.