{"id":14075,"date":"2015-02-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/02\/28\/hindraf-seeks-urgent-meeting-with-chief-minister-on-demolition-of-100-temples-in-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2015-02-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T12:00:00","slug":"hindraf-seeks-urgent-meeting-with-chief-minister-on-demolition-of-100-temples-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/02\/28\/hindraf-seeks-urgent-meeting-with-chief-minister-on-demolition-of-100-temples-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindraf seeks Urgent Meeting with Chief Minister on Demolition of 100 Temples in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/category\/nation\/2015\/02\/24\/hindraf-hoping-to-see-mb-on-demolition-of-100-temples\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA , February 24, 2015 (Freemalaysia Today): Hindraf Makkal Sakthi is seeking an urgent meeting with Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali on a reported 100 Hindu temples in the state which have purportedly been earmarked for demolition.The NGO maintains all these temples in Selangor were legally built. The meeting follows a public admission by Selangor Exco V. Ganapathi Rao that some 100 Hindu temples, older than the recently demolished 60-year-old Sri Kottai Munisvarar Nageswary Temple, would be demolished by the state government. He did not state the reasons for the pending demolitions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rao&#8217;s statement reminds us of the era of MIC and BN where they kept giving lame excuses for their inefficiency in tackling matters of public interest and concern,&#8221; said Hindraf vice-president Tamil Selvam. &#8220;He&#8217;s the lone Indian representative in the Exco and clearly outnumbered by the others.&#8221; His helplessness, pointed out Tamil Selvam, stems from the fact he has not been given the mandate to handle the issue. &#8220;The temples, he added, originated from plantations which were subsequently acquired by the government or sold to private developers. &#8220;Just because the plantations where the temples sit have been acquired by the government and developers, it does not mean that they can go on a demolition spree.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA , February 24, 2015 (Freemalaysia Today): Hindraf Makkal Sakthi is seeking an urgent meeting with Selangor,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}