DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng has claimed that BN and PAS have collaborated to bring up the hudud issue in the Dewan Rakyat for political purposes.

“We were taken aback by the bill. It wasn’t listed in the Order Paper yesterday, but it emerged in the Order Paper today and suddenly brought before the House,” he said.

"This is a collaboratiom between Umno and PAS... between BN and PAS," he said.

He urged BN partners - MCA, MIC, Gerakan and the parties in Sabah and Sarawak - to state their position.