Temple relocation turns chaotic as dissenters dig heels in


PETALING JAYA: Thursday morning quickly turned chaotic at the Seafield Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in USJ around 10am as police officers and Federal Reserve Units lined up outside the gates of the temple.

According to Malaysian Indian Education Transformation Association chairman Elangovan Annamalai, the temple committee had planned to remove the main deity in the temple and relocate it to the new 0.4 ha temple grounds, some 2.7km away.

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