THE Government has actually never ever guaranteed or accepted settlement to the Dewi Sri Pathrakaliamman holy place in Jalan Masjid India to transfer, states Datuk Seri Dr Zaliha Mustafa.
“No other agreement or ‘deal’ was made other than the settlement that I officially announced yesterday,” the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Federal Territories) said in a media statement Wednesday (March 26).
She was refuting allegations made by digital creator Firdaus Wong Wai Hung on his social media page that the Government had provided RM2mil in compensation to the temple to relocate.
“The allegations are completely untrue and baseless,” claimed Dr Zaliha.
“The Government has never promised or approved any form of compensation to the temple as described,” she repeated.
On Tuesday (March 25), Dr Zaliha had actually revealed that the holy place would certainly be transferred to a website near the initial place which the brand-new website would certainly be equal in dimension to its existing great deal.
She claimed this choice adhered to conversations with different events, consisting of the holy place agents.
It was additionally made a decision that the holy place would certainly remain to run customarily up until the moving procedure was completely finished.
Dr Zaliha claimed the concern had actually been managed based on the regulation along with factor to consider of the level of sensitivities of different events, and the building of the mosque on independently possessed land would certainly have the ability to proceed. She included that the job had actually been postponed given that 2020.
She additionally prompted all events to quit fanning the concern, claiming that “inflaming religious or racial sentiments based on unverified information, can threaten harmony and unity.”
