KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 — The PAS disciplinary committee has suspended Shah Alam PAS chief Khalid Samad for six months from his party post for a public disagreement while only warning Selangor state commissioner Datuk Hasan Ali for questioning the state Pakatan Rakyat government.
“We found Khalid Samad guilty under section 75 of the party’s constitution and decided to suspend him from his party posts for six months.
“During that period he is banned from making statements that affect the good name of PAS and Pakatan Rakyat.
“And position he holds in the party including the party’s Shah Alam chief and also committee member of the party’s political bureau,” he told reporters at the party’s headquarters here.
Khalid, who is away in Saudi Arabia, has been informed of the decision and will return soon to appeal against the punishment. He is suspended as Shah Alam PAS chief and political bureau member.
“Oh okay. No problem. I can appeal when I get back,” he told HarakahDaily, the party website.
“What is important is that both were found guilty and I hope the state commissioner will not cause problems with Pakatan Rakyat Selangor,” Khalid told the website.
Tuan Ibrahim, who is also party vice president, also confirmed Hasan has been given a warning and banned from making statement affecting Pakatan Rakyat.
Hasan had earlier announced the disciplinary committee’s decision and blamed the media for sensationalising his case.
The conservative motivational speaker also asked the media to be fair to him.
Hasan and his former state deputy, Khalid Samad, were hauled up by their party for openly disputing and disagreeing with each other.
Tuan Ibrahim explained that Khalid was guilty because he made public of internal party problem through his statements and blog posts.
Khalid was also guilty of revealing the contents of the Selangor Pas liaison meeting.
Tuan Ibrahim added that Khalid received a harsher punishment because his actions affected the party directly.
“He (Khalid) even admitted the seriousness of his wrongdoing during the investigation.
“He had avenues to express his dissatisfaction but since he did not do so, he damaged the party,” he said.
He also said that Hasan was wrong to criticise the Selangor state watchdog, Selcat, in public.
“Even though he (Hasan) is not part of Selcat and Selcat is independent from the exco but we decided that Selcat was established by the state government and the exco approved the establishment the body before it was established by the state assembly.
“Therefore as an exco member, he should bring any matters related to Selcat during the exco meeting and not outside,” he said.
Both Khalid and Hasan have 30 days to appeal against their punishment.
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