HARI Raya Aidilfitri open houses are a common sight where the Malay-Muslim hosts welcome visitors from diverse backgrounds to celebrate with them after the end of the blessed month of Ramadan.
In fact, a plan was already afoot recently to hold a much bigger Raya party by the Pakatan Harapan-led Selangor state government supposedly as part of the celebratory mood.
But therein lies the rub. The Raya event, which was held last Saturday (April 27), happened in Kuala Kubu Baharu shortly after the nomination of candidates for a by-election (pilihanraya kecil) that is scheduled on May 11.
The Kuala Kubu Baharu state assembly seat fell vacant following the death of its three-term assemblyman, Lee Kee Hiong, on March 21 owing to cancer.
Predictably, the state-sponsored celebration had raised concerns among the general public, particularly the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections (Bersih), which insisted that throwing such a big party at a place where a by-election is to be held would breach provisions under the Election Offences Act 1954.
Why couldn’t the party be held elsewhere, such as Klang, Shah Alam or Sg Buloh?
source https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/482378
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