The temple's legal adviser, M Manogaran, said that the temple committee members met Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor at "a short but amicable meeting" and the minister agreed to look into their suggestions.
This included gazetting land to the temple in return for giving up objections to the building of a walkway between the temple grounds and Menara Hap Seng, a skyscraper built next to the temple on Jalan P Ramlee.
The
temple's representatives have been at loggerheads with Kuala Lumpur
City Hall (DBKL) since September, when DBKL officers launched a sudden operation and demolished the temple's annexes.DBKL said it was taking back a slither of state land for development.
The temple cried foul, pointing out that it has occupied the area and used it as a place of worship for nearly 101 years. Defenders of the temple also said Tengku Adnan had acted outside the the law.
In his response, Tengku Adnan claimed that he was not out to destroy the temple but to beautify it.
At the meeting, Adnan told the committee that he would submit their architectural drawings to the committee in charge of non- Muslim places of worship for consideration.
Two PKR MPs - N Surendran and R Sivarasa - were thrown out of Parliament last month for trying to defend the temple, saying that tearing it down was an insult to Hindus in the country and to their religion.
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