{"id":949,"date":"2007-12-24T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T08:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/12\/24\/pm-asks-mic-to-change-approach-for-temple-demolition\/"},"modified":"2007-12-24T16:30:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T08:30:04","slug":"pm-asks-mic-to-change-approach-for-temple-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/12\/24\/pm-asks-mic-to-change-approach-for-temple-demolition\/","title":{"rendered":"PM asks MIC to change approach for temple demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERNAMA<\/p>\n<div> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Monday\/NewsBreak\/20071224160101\/Article\/semailpull_html\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Monday\/NewsBreak\/20071224160101\/Article\/index_html\"> source<br \/> <\/a> <\/div>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, MON:<\/p>\n<p> The government has asked MIC to continuously monitor all Hindu temples in the country and submit a report on their status to the cabinet periodically. <\/p>\n<table align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" width=\"200\">\n<\/table>\n<p>  MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi wanted the MIC to forward to him and the cabinet the list of temples that may have to be demolished for various reasons.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;As temples are a sensitive matter, a new approach is necessary to resolve the issue and the MIC will take over completely this task,&#8221; he said in a statement here today.<\/p>\n<p> Samy Vellu said he would travel to all the states soon to enable him to prepare a report on the number of temples in the country and their problems for submission to the cabinet.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We&#8217;ll identify illegally-built temples first and check on their status. We want to know of any move to demolish or relocate them,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p> Samy Vellu, who is also Works Minister, said he had asked Federal Territory MIC chief Datuk M. Saravanan and Selangor state executive councillor Kamala Ganapathy to organise meetings involving temple chiefs in their respective states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERNAMA source KUALA LUMPUR, MON: The government has asked MIC to continuously monitor all Hindu temples in the country and submit a report on their status to the cabinet periodically. MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi wanted the MIC to forward to him and the cabinet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,278,225,147,275],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-mic","tag-ngo","tag-politicians","tag-selangor","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}