Mohd Asri bin Muda ( Jawi: ; 10 October 1923 – 28 August 1992) was a

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politician who served as the President of the

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(PAS) from 1969 to 1982, and as the

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(Chief Minister) of

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Early and personal life

Asri was born on 10 October 1923 in

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, the capital of

. He was a school teacher and journalist before entering politics. He was elected to the Kelantan State Assembly and the federal

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in the 1959 election. He married to

Sakinah Junid Puan Sri Datin Seri Panglima Sakinah Junid (10 October 1922 – 7 September 2004) was the long-serving Dewan Muslimat's Chief of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) for twenty years ranging from 1963–1983. She is the wife of Asri Muda, PAS le ...

on August 15, 1948 and has 9 children, 2 males and 7 females, namely Noordianauli Asri, Husni Zaim, Ratna Inzah, Mutia Sabihah, Naliyah, Khalidah, Nasibah, Najah and Mohd Taqiuddin

Menteri Besar of Kelantan

Asri became the Menteri Besar of Kelantan in 1964, replacing Ishak Lotfi Omar. He served as Menteri Besar until 1974, when he resigned to become a Minister in the federal government.

PAS Presidency

Under Asri's leadership, PAS became a member of the governing

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(BN) coalition for the first and only time, from 1973 to 1978. Asri became the Minister for Land and Rural Development in the BN government. Asri's leadership was also notable for the shifting of PAS's outlook towards Malay nationalism. Both joining the BN coalition and moving away from religious-based policy platforms caused the party to lose support. In 1982, Asri was ousted as PAS leader by the religious ''

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'' faction of the party, to be replaced by Yusof Rawa. After Asri's tenure, PAS shifted to a more radical religious platform.

After PAS

Following his loss of the PAS presidency, Asri refrained from joining the

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(UMNO) or

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(BERJASA), decided to form his own Muslim People's Party of Malaysia or '' Parti Hizbul Muslimin Malaysia'' (HAMIM) in 1983 but failed to achieve any electoral success. He resigned from HAMIM together with other party representatives on 17 November 1988 after his attempt to dissolve HAMIM in an Extraordinary Muktamar failed. In 1988, he finally joined PAS's rivals, the UMNO, claiming that PAS had "deviated" and had been "infiltrated by extremist foreign elements".

Honours

Honours of Malaysia

* : **

Recipient of the Malaysian Commemorative Medal (Gold) (PPM) (1965) ** Commander of the

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(PMN) – Tan Sri (1992) * : ** MY-KEL Order of the Crown of Kelantan - Star of Muhammad

Knight Grand Commander of the

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(SPMK) – Dato' (1965) ** Dato' Sri Paduka Raja (1969) * : ** MY-SAB Order of Kinabalu - SPDK

Grand Commander of the

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(SPDK) – Datuk Seri Panglima (1974)

References

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