The
wing’s secretary C Sivarraajh told reporters that as a Malaysian, he
was ashamed of the Sunday fracas at the Golden Triangle Hindu temple,
where 10 people were arrested when they tried to stop DBKL officers from dismantling deities in a bid to seize back state land. “Even a small boy can know whether this is a place of worship or an eating shop,” Sivarraajh told reporters at the temple site along Jalan P Ramlee. “The statements issued by DBKL, Tengku Adnan and (the ministry’s special officer) R Ramanan are totally unacceptable and I challenge them to come and see for themselves.”
Sivarraajh (left) also blamed Ramanan, who, as an Indian, he said, should have advised Tengku Adnan on proper Hindu customs.Sivarraajh said even MIC president G Palanivel was misled by Tengku Adnan’s SMS. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Palanivel had said that only shops and not the temple was being demolished. This was because Palanivel did not know the real situation then, Sivarraajh said.
While it was true that the temple had operated a drink and snack stall for a while, it was only as a means to defray the temple’s operation costs, Bukit Bintang MIC division secretary VM Gunasekaran, who was also at the press conference, told reporters.
Gunasekaran said that MIC had aided the temple since 2010 to register as a place of worship and to ask for the state land on which it was squatting. Initially started as a shrine in 1911, a proper temple was only built at the current site in 1970s.
Gunasekaran estimated that the piece of land which DBKL had seized in an ambush operation on Sunday was worth RM5 million. The temple has since formed a joint action committee - comprising NGOs, and PKR and MIC officials - which would offer to meet Tengku Adnan to work out an amicable solution.
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