Temple demolition: PKR-MIC hit out at Tengku Adnan

While PKR demands Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to sack the FT minister, MIC Youth warns Tengku Adnan that temple demolition would affect Indian support for BN.

PETALING JAYA: PKR vice president N Surendran today criticised Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Mansor for claiming that the Sri Muneeswarar Kaliamman Temple in Jalan P Ramlee is a mere shrine and not a temple.

I am shocked at the contemptuous manner in which Tengku Adnan referred to the 101-year-old temple, he said.

The temple is embroiled in a dispute with the KL City Hall (DBKL) and a developer over the land it is sited on now. The land in the heart of the city has been earmarked for development, with the temple being forced to move out.

Earlier today, Tengku Adnan was reported as saying that the Sri Muneeswarar Kaliamman temple was a mere shrine and not a temple. He also said that holy place will only be identified as a shrine and would not be given the entire land which it currently sits on.

The Putrajaya MP also warned MIC Youth not to politicise the issue for their own political mileage.

Training his guns against the minister, Surendran said that Tengku Adnan should not conveniently categorise the holy place a mere shrine when the latter was not an expert in Hindu religious buildings.

He also said that even if the place was a shrine, the area was still a sacred centre for Hindus.

And Tengku Adnans claim that only an illegal canteen was demolished (last week) is also false. Three shrines within the temple area were smashed, and the deities forcibly and sacrilegiously removed by plainclothes DBKL personnel, said Surendran.

The Padang Serai MP called upon Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to sack Tengku Adnan from his post for insulting the Hindus.

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Temple demolition: PKR-MIC hit out at Tengku Adnan