COMMENT | In his recent statement a deputy minister cum Umno supreme council member argued that it was not wrong for ministers or ministries to organise programmes or announce allocations during by-elections.

In defending his argument, Ahmad Maslan contended that such matters had been brought to the court prior to this and the court’s decisions revealed that they (the ministers) were there based on their government leadership positions to meet the people and coincidentally there was a by-election...