Mahkota polls: Rice aid was distributed before Mahkota campaign started, says Ahmad

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The rice aid under the Bantuan Kasih Johor initiative was distributed before the Mahkota by-election campaign started, hence it did not flout any election laws, said Deputy Works Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan at a Mid-Autumn Festival event in Kluang on Tuesday (Sept 17) night.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/5n6d7tck  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Regarding Pekasar Juga, yesterday in his drama, he said that the government association kept the rice locally and distributed it during the PRK.

00:12Maybe you can comment on this.

00:14We did not distribute the rice during the PRK.

00:18The distribution of rice was done before the name of the candidate.

00:23Before the name of the candidate was Ban Tuan Kasih Johor,

00:27we can distribute anything before the name of the candidate.

00:31And it has been given.

00:33We will not give it.

00:35We do not have a provision to give during the campaign.

00:39We give a provision and we have implemented it before the campaign.

00:43Before the campaign, we can give anything.

00:46It does not violate any election regulations.

00:51The Malaysian government has been playing the sentiment issue.

00:55Where the president of Pekasar Juga, Mr. Hassan,

00:58yesterday in his speech,

01:00has accused that Malaysia will fall into the hands of China

01:05following the existence of the Porosity project

01:07which brings benefits to the people of China.

01:10What is your view on the issue that has been played?

01:15Porosity, where is the condition that we want to go to their citizens?

01:19There is none.

01:20It is a slander.

01:22They are not citizens of the country

01:24even though they bought the property in Porosity.

01:27All of this has been answered before.

01:30But it has been repeated.

01:32This is a slander.

01:34We do not like slander to be spread during the election.

01:39It is a very irresponsible act.

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