Sri Maha Mariamman Temple’s committee chairman R. Vellasamy today took the Pakatan-led Selangor government to task over its indifferent attitude towards settling the temple’s predicament.
The company owning the land on which the temple sits in Ladang Teluk Merbau here has issued a notice to the committee asking that the land be vacated.
Vellasamy claimed that the committee had written to the state executive councillor in charge, Dr Xavier Jayakumar, on the matter but to date had yet to get a response.
As a result, the committee sought the assistance of the then Deputy Minister in the Minister’s Department Senator T. Murugiah last year who helped negotiate a deferment on the eviction, he told a press conference after leading a protest demonstration in front of the temple here today.
He added that as things remained uncertain for the temple, they wanted the state government to assist in the matter.
Meanwhile, Tan Tuan Tat, the advisor to the committee, said they wanted the state government to alienate a piece of land adjacent to the temple to the committee to be exchanged with the company concerned so that the temple need not be demolished.
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