No temple for 900 Hindu and Chinese families in PPR flats Kg. Baru Air Panas, Kuala Lumpur

No temple for 900 Hindu and Chinese families in PPR flats Kg. Baru Air Panas, Kuala Lumpur.

With the above 900 families (600 Indian and 300 Chinese) there are about 4,500 Hindus and Buddhist (Toaist) who are in need of a place of worship in this poor and working class neighbourhood. There is an adjoining masjid though.

This morning 10/12/09 at about 10.00 a.m 40 Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) enforcement officers, three trucks and one van came to demolish the local PPR Flats Kg. Baru Air Panas Hindu and Chinese (Toaist) shrine.

With the Hindraf and HRP Setiawangsa Division officials resisting, these officers went away and vowed to come back in one week time to demolish these shrines.

How could the K.L. City Hall approve the building plans for this low cost PPR flats when a place for the building of a Hindu and Chinese temple was never allocated and built accordingly.

The Federal Territories Deputy Minister had early this year announced in Parliament that no more places of worship would be demolished in Kuala Lumpur. But the ground reality shows otherwise.

Had it been England this Ministerial statement which is a lie in Parliament would be national issue. But not in Malaysian democracy because even the opposition 82 PKR, DAP and PAS would not bother making this an issue or addressing the same in the first place.

The Setiawangsa HRP Division Chief Mr. P. Sivalingam would on 15/12/09 at 2.00 p.m be holding a peaceful protest outside the K.L. City Hall Mayor’s office to uphold the residents religious rights further to Article 11 of the Federal Constitution.

S.Jayathas

HRP Information Chief