PKR wants its Pakatan Rakyat partner, PAS, to take disciplinary action against a member of its central committee for discussing leaving the coalition in a leaked WhatsApp message that has gone viral online.
In a sign of escalating tension between both parties as a result of the current Selangor menteri besar crisis, Rafizi also demanded that PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang state the number of PAS leaders who held such views.
"What is the disciplinary action to be taken against Zuhdi, who had suggested a treacherous proposal, going against the agreement inked between PAS and Pakatan and the people who had voted for PAS and Pakatan?
"We want to know how many from the PAS central leadership hold such racist and anti-democractic views like Zuhdi," he said in a statement today.
PAS central committee members had been discussing the possibility of leaving Pakatan as the current Selangor MB crisis revealed cracks between the party and PKR.
Online news portal Malaysiakini reported that the screenshot of the leaked conversation revealed that Zuhdi was discussing the possibility of teaming up with rival Umno to form a simple majority government and at the same time to retain embattled Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim as MB.
More distressingly, the tone of the conversation was blatantly racist, reported the portal, with Zuhdi saying that his scenario would return political dominance to the Malays and allow them to check "DAP and non-Muslims".
"After this, if DAP and non-Muslims make noise about the Allah issue or raids, we can just swat them away.
Rafizi said that while differences of opinion are allowed in any organisation, Zuhdi had gone too far with his racist statement which was tantamount to a betrayal of Pakatan.
No lah! I didn't detect any element of 'racism' in Zuhdi's words. He was saying the truth - that Anwar is like a 'dictator' while DAP has been showing 'anti-Islam' pigments of late.