Ong (second left) speaks during a press discussion upon a land merger in Jalan Sultan, in Kuala Lumpur October 12, 2011. Picture by Choo Choy May
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat today warned Barisan Nasional (BN) which a coalition could lose votes in a next ubiquitous elections if it one after another to ignore protests over a fixing of a Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (MRT). The former MCA president said a Chinatown village had been denied a postpone from a merger of their properties in Jalan Sultan whilst other voices of criticism over a same plan were "visibly heeded with willingness to examination as well as detour".
Ong appeared to be referring to a new realignment upon Jalan Damansara, which critics from antithesis parties had purported was to avoid a merger of a former Cabinet minister's property.
"Why should a MRT Co be so adamant with putting a transport prior to a equine by proceeding with a merger routine even prior to open arrangement of a due track draws to a close?" he said in a statement.
"All these have so far remained unanswered. Nonetheless, a noisy overpower of a authorities upon this would only contribute to a PR (public relations) mess which is unpropitious to a statute coalition in a final analysis, some-more so in a appearance of a 13th General Election."
While discontented emporium owners influenced by a due land merger upon Jalan Sultan have been still lobbying to be heard, a Pandan MP said a reported detouring of a MRT track upon Jalan Damansara to avoid a merger of a VIP's villa was "indeed a stark contrariety which is suspicion provoking".
Yesterday a Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) authority Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar told antithesis lawmakers not to politicise a realignment of a Kl! ang Vall ey MRT line upon Jalan Damansara, insisting a move was not done to save a former minister's home.
The ongoing land rights brawl has turned into a domestic prohibited potato which could check a country's most expensive infrastructure project.
The months of discussions, open rendezvous talks, court challenges, street protests as well as interventions by polite multitude groups as well as politicians across a divide have done no headway.
Traders in Jalan Sultan as well as Jalan Bukit Bintang corroborated by Ong as well as DAP's Bukit Bintang MP Fong Kui Lun yesterday in jeopardy to take their grouses directly to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
Putrajaya progressing today betrothed which buildings upon Jalan Sultan would not be demolished, though stopped short of guaranteeing which prime land in a capital would stay in a hands of current landowners.
Ong said MRT Co had since an declaration to lapse a properties to a particular owners though "devoid of any technical declaration of gripping a historic building" structurally total as well as protected for function after a tunnelling.
He said a ad-hoc cabinet of a influenced emporium owners was reportedly called by MRT Co for negotiation though a offer of alternative routes was kept off a agenda.
"The owners were only left with one choice, i.e. to stoop to a original offer of extenuation a contractor a period of six months for tunnelling whilst a earmarked emporium houses have been vacated," he said.
He said one of a cabinet members called a meeting "a monologue aimed during arm-twisting a owners" to come to conditions with MRT Co, a Ministry of Finance Incorporated company.
Deputy Minister in a Prime Minister's Department Datuk Ahmad Maslan denied which MRT Co officials gave "not one chance" to Jalan Sultan traders to benefaction their alternative routes, which would save their properties.
He said a fixing due by landowners did not allow for integration with a existent Pasar Seni LRT ! station, as well as which curves upon a referred to track were as well sharp.
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