Deputy National Unity Minister Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal has defended Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Idris Ahmad's call for a stop to Bon Odori and Oktoberfest celebrations in Malaysia.

The deputy minister said it was not wrong for a religious minister to express such things.

Wan Fayhsal was responding to a supplementary question from Lim Guan Eng (Pakatan Harapan-Bagan), asking for the National Unity Ministry's stance on Idris disturbing the practices of non-Muslims such as with Bon Odori and Oktoberfest.