Call to name Tamil school after Samy Vellu

Compiled by C. ARUNO, R. ARAVINTHAN and MAHADHIR MONIHULDIN

SOME 40 Indian NGOs have demanded that the Tamil school planned in Taman Thivy Jaya, Seremban, be named after the late Tun S. Samy Vellu, Makkal Osai reported.

The matter was brought up during the Indiar Sangam Orungginaippu Peravai’s (Unified Council) 16th meeting by its chairman Datuk Dr Kanagaraja Raman.

Taman Thivy Jaya itself was developed under a plan formulated by Samy Vellu, a former MIC president, 25 years ago.

A Tamil school was supposed to be part of the development on KPJ land and the groundbreaking was also held in 2013 but the plan did not take off.

“With the school being considered again now, it is only appropriate to name it after the leader who initiated the development of the housing area and contributed a lot to the community,” Kanagaraja said.

The council also voiced its support for the planned Chittirai New Year celebration in the state on May 1 under Seremban Jaya assemblyman P. Guna and exco member Chew Seh Yong.

Kanagaraja also urged the state government to consider recognising the Little India area in Seremban with a decorative arch in Jalan Datuk Lee Fong Yee or Jalan Yam Tuan.

> A 10-year-old boy in India had his throat slit by his uncle in a ritual sacrifice, Makkal Osai reported.

Vivek Varma from Uttar Pradesh went missing from home on March 23, prompting a search by his family and the police.

A few days later, police received reports of a body in a field and it was identified as the missing boy.

During the investigation, police found out that the boy had been killed in a ritual sacrifice by his uncle, who lives in the same village.

The uncle, who has a two-and-a-half-year-old mentally disabled son, had been searching for a way to cure his son.

He was told by a shaman that his son could be cured by making a human sacrifice.

The uncle and a relative then kidnapped the boy and killed him with a trenching spade.

The two killers and the shaman have been arrested.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.