{"id":2848,"date":"2008-12-03T16:16:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T08:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2008-12-03T16:16:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T08:16:46","slug":"dbkl-demolishes-shrine-saravanan-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/religion\/2008\/12\/03\/dbkl-demolishes-shrine-saravanan-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"DBKL demolishes shrine, Saravanan upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/12\/3\/nation\/2705375&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">Star<\/a>, DBKL (City Hall) has demolished a 15-year-old Hindu shrine in Taman Desa, Seputeh, at 10am yesterday, causing another round of outbursts from the Hindu community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apparently, Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) issued a notice indicating the actions it would take on Oct 23, but the message was pasted on the shrine\u2019s wall and not handed over to the management.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>Deputy Federal Territories Minister Datuk M. Saravanan said he was upset over the demolition. \u201cI have an understanding with the Federal Territories Minister that no existing temples would be demolished. If there was any development on the land, then the temple would be relocated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Saravanan said he would arrange for a meeting with the DBKL officers to get full details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, after saying he will meet PM over the fatwa issue, Samy Vellu says he would also speak to PM Badawi about this temple demolishment issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu has asked DBKL to explain why it demolished the shrine that was located on a field.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he would speak to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi about the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;d love to condemn Saravanan for his failure, but then I realise this case is <a href=\"More on Ampang Kaliamman Temple issue\" target=\"_blank\">similar with Maha Kaliamman<\/a> temple in Ampang. The elected representatives were not informed of things that are happening, and I notice that this tend to happen to non-UMNO politicians only.\u00a0 So, now the blame is on DBKL, Saravanan is left red-faced, and Pakatan will have field day blasting BN, MIC, and Saravanan. Looks like MIC better push for local council elections. They seem to suffer the most from local councils actions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DBKL has a committee that oversees temple issues. I think MHS, MIC and other relevant people are in the committee. So how can this demolition take place? Is everyone aware of the demolition but putting on a &#8220;drama&#8221; or the committee never did have any meetings regarding this temple? Or is possible that DBKL staff themselves forgot that such a committee exists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Star, DBKL (City Hall) has demolished a 15-year-old Hindu shrine in Taman Desa, Seputeh, at 10am yesterday, causing another round of outbursts from the Hindu community. Apparently, Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) issued a notice indicating the actions it would take on Oct 23, but the message was pasted on the shrine\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[225,275],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-religion","tag-politicians","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2856,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}