Hulu S’gor: A mere one Hindu temple and tamil school land one at a time newspaper kosong politics by UMNO & PKR, DAP and PAS. Why not all in one go?
Upon independence from the British in 1957 ie some 53 years ago, all masjids, suraus and muslim cemeteries were granted state government land and gazetted accordingly within the first ten or so years of independence as they were deemed public amenities.
The Chinese, Buddhists, Sikhs and the rich Indians bought their own land for their places of worship. The British left behind enough churches and Christian cemetery lands for the local cemeteries.
This leaves us with the poor Hindus where 95% of their mostly pre independence Hindu temples, Hindu cemeteries and Tamil schools and Indian settlements sit on government or private land. They were all not alienated state government land and gazetted accordingly like what was done for all the masjids and suraus. Unlike all the masjids and suraus, these Hindu temples, cemeteries, Tamil schools and Indian settlements were not deemed to be public amenities or public necessities.
From the very beginning UMNO, and now PKR, DAP and PAS never intended these Hindu temples, cemeteries and Tamil schools to permanently dot the landscape of Malaysia.
All along they were meant to be temporary structures. They were demolished on an as and where basis, to make way for “development". These demolishment were facilitated with none or very little resistance by the able MIC mandores and in the last two over years by the PKR, DAP and PAS Exco, DCM II, MP and ADUN mandores. When there is resistance, the Hindu temple etc is made to move another smaller temporary land of 10,000 sq feet, next to a sewerage pond, below high tension electrical cables, Telecoms towers or industrial wasteland. Insults of this magnitude does not happen to any other community except to the Hindus and Indians in Prime Minister Najib Razak’s One Malaysia.
And today in the latest episode, this One Malay-sia Prime Minister after 53 years of independence makes a mere that too “offer” of one Hindu temple land to the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Kalumpang, and that too on the occasion of the Hulu Selangor by elections. (Sunday star 25/4/2010 at page N4).
This newspaper kosong politics was made possible by an UMNO Indian businessman mandore.
As usual the land title to even this one temple was never handed to them. After the Hulu Selangor by-elections this Kalumpang Mariamman Hindu Temple would be forgotten and they will only know that the One Malaysia Prime Minister had cheated them when the bulldozers come to demolish their temples as has happened to thousands of other Hindu temples in UMNO’s “ethnic cleansing” of the Hindus and Indians in Malay-sia.
And this UMNO’s “one by one" newspaper politics has now been ably aped by PKR, DAP and PAS Indian mandores.
Especially after 53 years of independence why can’t all these Hindu temples, cemeteries, Tamil schools and Indian settlements be resolved all in one go, while they are in power, and for the Indians to move on to also become part of the national mainstream development of Malaysia? UMNO, PKR, DAP and PAS intend to continue to insult the Indians on a day to day basis. Wait for the backlash in 2012/2013.
P.Uthayakumar
Upon independence from the British in 1957 ie some 53 years ago, all masjids, suraus and muslim cemeteries were granted state government land and gazetted accordingly within the first ten or so years of independence as they were deemed public amenities.
The Chinese, Buddhists, Sikhs and the rich Indians bought their own land for their places of worship. The British left behind enough churches and Christian cemetery lands for the local cemeteries.
This leaves us with the poor Hindus where 95% of their mostly pre independence Hindu temples, Hindu cemeteries and Tamil schools and Indian settlements sit on government or private land. They were all not alienated state government land and gazetted accordingly like what was done for all the masjids and suraus. Unlike all the masjids and suraus, these Hindu temples, cemeteries, Tamil schools and Indian settlements were not deemed to be public amenities or public necessities.
From the very beginning UMNO, and now PKR, DAP and PAS never intended these Hindu temples, cemeteries and Tamil schools to permanently dot the landscape of Malaysia.
All along they were meant to be temporary structures. They were demolished on an as and where basis, to make way for “development". These demolishment were facilitated with none or very little resistance by the able MIC mandores and in the last two over years by the PKR, DAP and PAS Exco, DCM II, MP and ADUN mandores. When there is resistance, the Hindu temple etc is made to move another smaller temporary land of 10,000 sq feet, next to a sewerage pond, below high tension electrical cables, Telecoms towers or industrial wasteland. Insults of this magnitude does not happen to any other community except to the Hindus and Indians in Prime Minister Najib Razak’s One Malaysia.
And today in the latest episode, this One Malay-sia Prime Minister after 53 years of independence makes a mere that too “offer” of one Hindu temple land to the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Kalumpang, and that too on the occasion of the Hulu Selangor by elections. (Sunday star 25/4/2010 at page N4).
This newspaper kosong politics was made possible by an UMNO Indian businessman mandore.
As usual the land title to even this one temple was never handed to them. After the Hulu Selangor by-elections this Kalumpang Mariamman Hindu Temple would be forgotten and they will only know that the One Malaysia Prime Minister had cheated them when the bulldozers come to demolish their temples as has happened to thousands of other Hindu temples in UMNO’s “ethnic cleansing” of the Hindus and Indians in Malay-sia.
And this UMNO’s “one by one" newspaper politics has now been ably aped by PKR, DAP and PAS Indian mandores.
Especially after 53 years of independence why can’t all these Hindu temples, cemeteries, Tamil schools and Indian settlements be resolved all in one go, while they are in power, and for the Indians to move on to also become part of the national mainstream development of Malaysia? UMNO, PKR, DAP and PAS intend to continue to insult the Indians on a day to day basis. Wait for the backlash in 2012/2013.
P.Uthayakumar
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