NSC's double standard on Thaipusam

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ADUN SPEAKS | I have recently observed that there is a certain degree of incongruity or dissonance between the National Security Council (NSC) and its relationship with the state, district and local governments.This incongruity relates the perception that the federal agencies know best in terms of curbing the Covid-19 pandemic.Once an agency, such as the NSC, comes out with the standard operating procedures (SOP), it is expected that the lower levels of governments just have to implement them without asking questions.The fact that the state, district and local level governments might have better ideas of containing the pandemic probably never crossed the minds of the NSC's members.The case of the Hindu religious festival, Thaipusam, best illustrates the dissonance between the know it all federal agency, the NSC, and the state governments.It was the Penang government that f…