KLANG: The Sri Raja Rajeswari temple committee wants Selangor executive councilor Dr Xavier Jeyakumar to keep his promise to gazette a land for construction of a multi-purpose hall at Taman Sentosa, Klang.
In making this call, the temple committee member V Thiagarajen gave the state government one week to gazette the 1.13 acre land for the use of the temple.
Speaking to FMT, Thiagarajen, better known as VT Rajen, said the state government must gazette the land before the Selangor State Legislative Assembly is dissolved to pave way for the state polls.
“We give him one week to solve this matter. If he fails to do so, then we will build a barrier around the promised land,” said Rajen, who is also Taman Mujur MIC branch chairman.
He said Jeyakumar had officiated at a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the multi-purpose hall on the land, located behind the temple complex, on June 17, 2012.
“Since then the temple committee met Xavier various times to get the state government’s nod. But, every time he gave lame excuses on the land issue,” said Rajen.
He said the temple committee fears that it would lose the land if the state government fails to approve the land before the general election.
“With the election around the corner, the state government has only about two weeks to approve and endorse the approval in its executive council meeting. This is near impossible. Everything must be completed in two weeks,” he added.
Jeyakumar, when contacted, denied the allegation saying that the state was in the process of gazetting the land.
“The state government is engaging all temples. If it is complicated, it takes time,” he told FMT.
He said if it was a “straight forward” case, then the state government would have no problem in awarding the land to the temple.
“Be patient. We are working on degazetting the land from its vacant land status and we will gazette another land as vacant to replace this,” added Jeyakumar.
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