Seeking the Prime Minister’s help


Chandrakumanan (fourth from left) with hawkers Ooi Ah Boy (second from left), Lau Teng Wan (fourth from right) and V. Alagi (second from right) holding a copy of the Little India Project blueprint showing the food court the hawkers have been trading in and been displaced. — Rohaizat Md Darus/The Star

TRADERS on government land beside the Sri Kotumalai Pillayar Restaurant in Little India, Brickfields will send a petition to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak seeking his intervention to allow them to continue plying their trade at the site.

A petition with 900 signatures will be given to the Prime Minister, attached with the hopes, fears and struggles facing a group of Brickfields hawkers forced to make way for a proposed garden.

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