00:00Past President Abdul Hadi Awang has played down Barsan Nationals' victory in the Ayakuning by-election last weekend.
00:10He said BN candidate Yusri Bakir's victory in the by-election stemmed from the UMNO-DAP alliance,
00:16commonly referred to as UMDAB, which he claimed sought to purify DAP.
00:21The Marang MP said this included efforts to cleanse DAP and Pakatan Harapan of blame in controversies
00:28such as illegal pig farming in predominantly Muslim Malay areas.
00:32Hadi said many Malay Muslim voters in Ayakuning rejected the idea of a progressive and liberal Islam
00:39and UMDAB's efforts to cleanse DAP's image as these were against Islamic principles.
00:45He said UMDAB had led some of UMNO's supporters to embrace the secular principle of the
00:50and justifies the means and other liberal ideologies.
00:53Yusri won the by-election with a 5,006-vote majority,
00:58defeating Perikatan National candidate Abdul Mohamin Malik
01:02and Party Socialist Malaysia's Kez Bawani.
01:05Narmuthar Raja, FMT.
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