Temple task force slams chairman, demands that he resign

Christopher Rabin Christopher Rabin Updated 7 years ago · Published on 1 Dec 2018 8:20PM · 3 Comments

A Federal Reserve Unit Personnel taking a break outside the Seafield Sri Maha Mariamman temple on November 28. A member of the save temple task force has demanded that its chairman, K. Chellapa, resign from his position. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Kamal Ariffin, December 1, 2018.

THE current chairman of the Sri Maha Mariamman temple committee should step down as he has not been involved in the running of the place for the past 17 years, said the task force set up to protect the temple from relocation.

A member of the task force, Elangovan Annamalai, today hit out at the temple chairman K. Chellapa, saying he had no business holding on to the president’s post.

“Chellapa is officially the chairman, but since 2001, he had not set foot into the temple,” Elangovan told The Malaysian Insight.

“I’m very surprised at how he is sending his annual general reports and audited accounts.”

Elangovan also accused Chellapa of selling out to the developer, One City Development Sdn Bhd, for accepting the compensation to relocate the temple from his present site in Subang Jaya to Putra Heights, located some 2.7km away.

In a consent judgment issued by the court, the developer would relocate the temple to a new site and pay compensation.

The temple was to have relocated last week but the task force refused to budge as they had filed an injunction to stop the relocation.

This led to a group of about 50 masked men attacking the temple on Monday, resulting in two days of riots. Scores of people were injured while more than 20 vehicles were torched.

“Chellapa should resign and return the money he took from the developer,” said Elangovan.

“The devotees feel cheated as whatever agreement Chellapa reached with the developer was never discussed with them.

“He took the money without the consent of the devotees who are the biggest stakeholders of the temple.

“He should now step down and let others run the management (of the temple) with dignity.” – December 1, 2018.

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  • Mr Nagaraju consented too

    Posted 7 years ago by Julian Nagelsmann · Reply

  • Let us have a better and clearer definition of the word 'Devotee'. Are these people living in the locality of the temple and always praying there or remote controlling from somewhere else? Reading the names mentioned above, it looks like the temple committee itself is having disagreements.

    Posted 7 years ago by Shaikh karim · Reply

  • Typical Indians mentality. Argue and fight to no end.

    Posted 7 years ago by Jackal Way · Reply