Alor Setar MP Gooi Hsiao Leung accused Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak of “holding women to ransom” by demanding they give BN a two-thirds majority in the coming election to end unilateral child conversion.

"It is utterly indefensible and inhumane of the prime minister to exploit the miseries and suffering of mothers arising from unilateral conversion of minors just to win votes," Gooi said.

Najib had told women at the Transformasi Nasional 2050 (TN50) dialogue session earlier this week that the government could only introduce Section 88A with a two-thirds majority in Parliament.

The proposed Section 88A, if introduced in the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act (LRA), would have put a stop to unilateral conversion, but was dropped from the amendments to the LRA passed in the last Parliament sitting...