{"id":6328,"date":"2010-01-28T22:24:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T14:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6328"},"modified":"2010-01-28T22:24:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T14:24:46","slug":"pr-stage-to-be-removed-at-batu-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2010\/01\/28\/pr-stage-to-be-removed-at-batu-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"PR stage to be removed at Batu Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kesian! But I don’t think PM Najib was supposed to visit on Sunday afternoon, more than 24 hours after Thaipusam since there’s nothing much but rubbish to see after Thaipusam is over.<\/p>\n

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Police have ordered the Pakatan Rakyat state government to remove a stage set up at Batu Caves for celebrations on the eve of Thaipusam tomorrow despite prior approval from the authorities.<\/p>\n

Selangor executive councillor Dr Xavier Jayakumar told\u00a0The Malaysian Insider <\/em>he had been informed that this was because Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was scheduled to visit Batu Caves at 9pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is totally unfair, I had met the Gombak Police chief earlier this week at the Selayang Municipal Council and there was no problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Xavier said tomorrow\u2019s celebrations, which starts at 10.30pm, is part of the Selangor Tourism programme which is being hosted by the state government and sponsored by Digi.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody told us Najib was coming tomorrow and he was only initially supposed to visit on Saturday afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Malaysian Inside<\/a><\/strong>r<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is still attempting to contact the Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar for an official comment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kesian! But I don’t think PM Najib was supposed to visit on Sunday afternoon, more than 24 hours after Thaipusam since there’s nothing much but rubbish to see after Thaipusam is over. Police have ordered the Pakatan Rakyat state government to remove a stage set up at Batu Caves for celebrations on the eve of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,10],"tags":[38,225,147,37],"class_list":["post-6328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","category-religion","tag-batu-caves","tag-politicians","tag-selangor","tag-thaipusam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328","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=6328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}