DAP leader Ngeh Koo Ham’s views on religious freedom in the country - including those from almost a decade ago - are coming back to haunt him and the government ahead of the six state elections.

This is after a 2014 newspaper clipping on Ngeh's remarks urging Muslims to respect that religious freedom under the Federal Constitution also protects a person's right to leave a religion, went viral on pro-Perikatan Nasional social media accounts.

According to Parliament's Hansard, the Beruas MP had said on June 11, 2014, that if everyone can respect the...