ANOTHER DEMOLITION? Devotees in a quandary over temple status
SEPANG: THE residents of Ladang Teluk Merbau, here, have hit a wall over the status of a Hindu temple as their pleas continued to go unheeded by the Parti Keadilan Rakyat-led Selangor government.
Temple chairman R. Vellasamy said the over 130-year-old Sri Maha Mariamman temple will be reduced to rubble if the state showed no signs of intervention.
"This temple was built during the British colonial times on land belonging to conglomerate Hap Seng Land Sdn Bhd.
"But the company wanted its land back in April last year and issued a demolition order," he told a press conference yesterday.
Although he had asked for help from the state government, Vellasamy said the demolition was on hold temporarily due to a meeting with the company and representatives from MCA and MIC.
Former Sungai Pelek DAP branch chairman and temple advisor Tan Tuan Tat said the Indian community was saddened over the status of the temple.
"There are lots of Indian families here. If the temple is demolished, where will they go and pray?"
Tan said the conglomerate gave an alternate land for the temple to be relocated -- 8km away from its current location. But the temple management asked to be relocated to a land belonging to the state government which was only 2km away.
However, Tan said the state had ignored the request despite five letters sent between Jan 11 and May 28 this year to Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim and state executive councillors Dr Xavier Jeyakumar and Teresa Kok.
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