UMNO: Kulai Besar Hindu Temple should be preserved

The Johor HRP Chairman Mr. Y. Mohan and his committee are questioning why the ancient plantation Kulai Besar Estate Maha Mariamman Hindu Temple has to move out to some two kilometers away where there are very few Hindus. And even then the land title to the new site as usual is not granted and this is meant to be another temporary arrangement. This would mean that when there is another development in a few years time, this temple would again have to move out again.

The UMNO authorities know very well of the existence of this Hindu temple but yet had approved a housing project on the said Hindu temple site. In every housing development there is supposed to be a Hindu temple, mosque, church, Chinese temple, etc. So why can’t this existing temple be preserved in the new housing estate.?Isn’t this a very shrewd and ruthless way of UMNO “ethnically cleansing” this and hundreds of other such Hindu temples?

This is just the tip of the iceberg of how Hindu temples nationwide have been demolished to make way for “development” with no or very little regard for the pre existing temples.

But why does this hardly ever happen to any suraus, masjids, Chinese temples, churches, etc? Why is it always the Hindu temples that are being targetted by UMNO? Indians are soft targets?

P.Uthayakumar
07/04/10