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Sungai Besar Umno leader Jamal Yunos said that he fully supported the decree by the Selangor Sultan, that there should be no more abuses of hearses, including being used for protest purposes.
He noted that the restriction may not have been clear before and clarified that his use of the hearses was only symbolic to represent a serious issue facing the state.
"Maybe the matter was not clear before and today I fully support the Sultan's decree to ensure that there will be no more abuse of hearses.
"I just want to say that the letter only came today, and what I did before this was using the hearses as a symbolic representation of state allocation for funerary arrangements that were misused," he told reporters after a forum in Shah Alam today.
Jamal also said that he is thankful that his actions have managed to highlight the issue of abuses in the state's Muslim funerary services to the Sultan.
He said he had reported the same issue to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.
Asked about calls for him to apologise to the Sultan for using hearses in his own protest before the State Secretariat Building, he said that he was not named in the letter and would not want to presume what the Sultan meant.
Earlier today, the Selangor Sultan's decreed that all abuses of hearses should stop, including being rented out for demonstrations.
The Sultan's decree was announced in a letter issued by his private secretary Munir Bani.
While Jamal was not named, the decree was seen by many as being aimed at him for his gravedigger protest in front of the State Secretariat building previously where he diverted 15 hearses for his protest where he appeared dressed as a gravedigger.- Mkini
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