{"id":3058,"date":"2009-01-09T16:06:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T08:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2009-01-09T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T08:06:48","slug":"push-for-thaipusam-holiday-in-kedah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/religion\/2009\/01\/09\/push-for-thaipusam-holiday-in-kedah\/","title":{"rendered":"push for Thaipusam holiday in Kedah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I remember correctly, the previous state government said that it will look into declaring Thaipusam holiday for Kedah since last year&#8217;s request was too close to the festival. Alas, those folks lost the elections.<\/p>\n<p>This time around the PAS-led state government has to satisfy the hunger of the Hindu community. Can they push for holiday for Thaipusam? Will it be considered as anti-Islamic to support a holiday for a kafir religion?<\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough, the call to make Thaipusam a holiday comes from the non-PAS EXCO. who says he has<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/1\/4\/nation\/2939639&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"> discussed<\/a> with the Menteri Besar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Indian community here has asked the state to declare Thaipusam a public holiday in line with most other states which have already done so.<\/p>\n<p>In making the appeal, Kedah state executive councillor V. Arumugam said he would seek an audience with Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah to get his approval for the public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had earlier discussed the matter with Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak .<\/p>\n<p>Thaipusam falls on Feb 8 this year and is a public holiday in Selangor, Penang, Perak, Negri Sembilan and Johor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which brings us to the next question &#8211; What about Malacca? Is MIC trying again this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I remember correctly, the previous state government said that it will look into declaring Thaipusam holiday for Kedah since last year&#8217;s request was too close to the festival. Alas, those folks lost the elections. This time around the PAS-led state government has to satisfy the hunger of the Hindu community. Can they push for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[65,199,302,37],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-religion","tag-festival","tag-kedah","tag-religion","tag-thaipusam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","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=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}