A citizens action group claiming to be fighting for Indian welfare has threatened to expose supposed links between a developer and a Selangor executive council member allegedly protecting the company.

NONE“After 2008 when Pakatan Rakyat took over the state administration, corruption ran rampant,” said Barisan Bertindak Nambikai president B Kalaivanar (right).

He claimed that such corruption had seen the developer being exempted from punishment when it contravened laws and regulations.

Met while leading a group of Puchong residents to lodge a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) at the anti-graft body’s headquarters in Putrajaya today, Kalaivanar explained that the developer’s project in Puchong had caused damage to homes and disturbance to lives, but it had escaped action despite repeated reports being made to MPSJ, the local government, for four straight years.

NONEHe alleged that the developer’s piling works had caused cracks in homes as construction works went on all day long, past the working hours mandated by regulations, while the developer employed illegal foreign labour.

Forty-four residents from the affected village, representing 14 of the total 27 families involved, accompanied Kalaivanar. They arrived at the MACC headquarters in a schoolbus, prompting police overseeing security at the complex, which also houses the Home Ministry, to send two patrol cars and over a dozen cops to observe the scene.

The group also assembled for a short protest in front of the commission’s building, unfurling banners criticising MPSJ and the Selangor government and chanting anti-Pakatan slogans like ‘Undur! Undur! Pakatan!’ and ‘Tipu! Tipu! Tipu Pakatan!’.

‘Four years of mental anguish’

Kalaivanar said that they are here to put an end to four years of mental anguish and suffering for the residents after their repeated reports to the local and state governments and last week’s protest in front of MPSJ failed to obtain any results.

NONEKalaivanar, however, did not disclose the name of the exco member nor the developer, adding that he will only do so in 10 days.

Today’s report against MPSJ joins the barrage of attacks against the local government in Pakatan-led Selangor, with the MCA criticising MPSJ recently over allegations involving the raising of quit rent rates.

Selangor has become a hotbed of brickbats from both sides of the political divide as things heat up in the run up to the 13th general election and BN’s vow to retake the industrial state being matched by Pakatan’s promise to hold on to the former Umno stronghold.

Part of the proxy war to the political battle is the outsourcing of community issues to citizens groups to stir local sentiment.


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