PAS is not only lost (sesat) in its struggle. It has also lost its ability to differentiate between right and wrong, making a wrong friend in Umno, which is the main enemy of nation-building.

PAS Youth vice-chief Ahmad Fadhli Shaari may have argued that the recently-concluded PAS muktamar had never stated their support for Umno or BN, but the fact that its president Abdul Hadi Awang had openly declared rejecting any move in allowing DAP to win GE14 had said it all.

Hadi had said in the muktamar that PAS will reject any move to bring down the current government just to allow a purportedly DAP-led coalition to take over Putrajaya.

PAS and Hadi had been with DAP in Pakatan Rakyat for seven years since 2008. Hadi knows fully well that consensus and mutual respect are the main working mechanism of the then-Pakatan Rakyat. PAS was once the victim of the lies of Umno, where Umno had relentlessly tried to paint the picture in the eyes of Malays and Muslims that the DAP is anti-Malay and anti-Islam and is the sole dominant party in the coalition.

Why is PAS and Hadi now taking the old path of Umno creating hatred and fear amongst the Malays and Muslims against DAP and Pakatan Harapan as a whole?

The answer can only be one - PAS is trying to rescue Umno from its scandal-hit governance by claiming itself to be the third choice apart from Pakatan Harapan and BN in the next election, and play the spoiler role in splitting the votes of the opposition.

PAS’s muktamar had never got a larger coverage in Umno-controlled mainstream media TV3 than this round as it suited fully well Umno’s propaganda in demonising DAP as anti-Malay and anti-Islam.

PAS has done it well for Umno, but this may also mark the start of the end of PAS legacy in the politics of Malaysia, getting wiped out by the voters in the next general election for failing to identify who is the actual enemy that is destroying the nation with the mother of all scandals, 1MDB.

Hadi is positioning PAS towards retaining Umno in power at the expenses of the 60 long years history of the party. Ahmad Fadhli should instead, together with its approximately 1 million PAS ordinary members, focus on saving PAS from continuing to rot and sink together with Umno.

WONG KAH WOH is state assemblyperson for Canning.