PUTRAJAYA: Putrajaya division Umno Youth yesterday lodged a police report over DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang calling Umno members infidels during a Galas by-election campaign ceramah (public talk).
Its representative Mohd Hisamudin Yahaya said the report was made at the Putrajaya police headquarters for the relevant authorities to investigate the offence allegedly committed by Lim under the Election Offences Act 1954.
“Accusing Umno members of being infidels is extreme and appears to have been endorsed by other quarters in the opposition pact,” he told reporters.
“It was clearly an act of provocation and against the Federal Constitution, which states that people of other religions cannot interfere with a community’s religious faith,” he said.
Newspapers reported yesterday that Lim had made the statement in front of PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat and PKR advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at the Kesedar Land Rehabilitation Scheme in Sungai Terah, Gua Musang, Kelantan. — Bernama