{"id":1168,"date":"2008-01-22T12:07:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T04:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/01\/22\/kedah-and-malacca-thaipusam-holiday-maybe-next-year\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T23:57:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T15:57:44","slug":"kedah-and-malacca-thaipusam-holiday-maybe-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/01\/22\/kedah-and-malacca-thaipusam-holiday-maybe-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Kedah and Malacca Thaipusam holiday maybe next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Looks like Kedah and Malacca have to wait for another year (and also wait for election result!).<\/p>\n<p><u><br \/>\n<\/u><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/1\/22\/nation\/20078696&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><br \/>\nMeanwhile, Kedah has said it may declare Thaipusam a public holiday next year. Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid said in Alor Star that the state would not consider making it a holiday this year because there was not enough time to do so. &#8220;We have to seek approval from the Sultan of Kedah first. &#8220;It also involves some paperwork. The decision also has to be made at the state executive council meeting and it may take some time,&#8221; he said. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He was asked to comment on MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu&#8217;s statement that he would appeal for Thaipusam to be declared a public holiday in Kedah and Malacca.<\/p>\n<p>Thaipusam is celebrated on a grand scale in Sungai Petani at the Sri Subramaniar Swami Devasthanam Temple. More than 150,000 devotees attend the event each year.<\/p>\n<p>Malacca MIC chairman Datuk R. Raghavan said he would raise the proposal to have Thaipusam declared a holiday at the state exco meeting tomorrow. &#8220;I have already spoken to Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam on this,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands are expected to gather at the Sri Subramaniar Temple in Batu Berendam, Malacca, for prayers as well as the fulfilling of vows for Thaipusam tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Kedah and Malacca have to wait for another year (and also wait for election result!). source Meanwhile, Kedah has said it may declare Thaipusam a public holiday next year. Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid said in Alor Star that the state would not consider making it a holiday this year because there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,37],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-mic","tag-thaipusam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}