{"id":6714,"date":"2010-08-05T23:13:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6714"},"modified":"2010-08-05T23:13:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T15:13:13","slug":"pc-isaacs-rehonored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2010\/08\/05\/pc-isaacs-rehonored\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Isaacs rehonored!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A small bit of historical event<\/a><\/strong> in Terengganu. I’m not sure why his named was removed in the first place, but its good to have some sort of\u00a0remembrance\u00a0of such folks.<\/p>\n

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The name of Terengganu\u2019s prominent educator and philanthropist, the late Datuk P.C. Isaacs, which was scrapped as a street name during PAS\u2019 rule in 1999, is back on the state map.<\/p>\n

A road in the city, formerly known as Jalan Kampung Dalam, has been renamed as Jalan Dato Isaacs in appreciation of his contribution to the state.<\/p>\n

Kuala Terengganu City Council reinstated Isaacs\u2019 name on a road this month despite protests from local traders who claimed the renaming of the road would cause them to incur extra expenses as they had to change their signboards and letterheads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are also worried that their new stocks may go astray as most drivers of outstation logistics lorries are dependent on the Global Positioning System or Googlemap to guide them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Toh said he would discuss with the mayor about the need to explain to the traders why the road\u2019s name was changed.<\/p>\n

Jalan Dato Isaacs disappeared from the map after PAS renamed it Jalan Sultan Sulaiman.<\/p>\n

Isaacs was the first Indian to be appointed to the Terengganu Legislative Assembly from 1948 to 1956 while his views on racial unity were incorporated in the Reid Com-mission.<\/p>\n

After Barisan Nasional wrested the state in 2004, Isaacs\u2019 children relentlessly lobbied with the state government to reinstate their father\u2019s name as a street name.<\/p>\n

Kuala Terengganu Indian Club chairman A. Manglesh said representatives from the business community affected by the renaming of the road had met him to discuss their problem.<\/p>\n

Some of them, he said, were not even aware of who Isaacs was and his contribution to the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not their fault as some of these businessmen are below 50 and have not heard of the late Isaacs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Manglesh said Isaacs, who opened the English Grammar School which provided free education to the poor in 1950s, played a pivotal role in promoting Kuala Terengganu to the outside world.<\/p>\n

Isaacs was later selected by the Reid Commission to help draft the Constitution of the Federation of Malaya.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A small bit of historical event in Terengganu. I’m not sure why his named was removed in the first place, but its good to have some sort of\u00a0remembrance\u00a0of such folks. The name of Terengganu\u2019s prominent educator and philanthropist, the late Datuk P.C. Isaacs, which was scrapped as a street name during PAS\u2019 rule in 1999, […]<\/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],"tags":[90,200],"class_list":["post-6714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-role-model","tag-terengganu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714","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=6714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6719,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714\/revisions\/6719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}