180 in Taman Suria get CFs after 15-year wait
23/04/2007 The Star

KUALA SELANGOR: About 1,000 residents of Taman Suria here received their certificate of fitness (CF) for the 180 houses in the estate after waiting for 15 years.

MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu also announced that the flood problems faced by the residents in the housing estate the past five years were also being tackled with the expansion and deepening of the drain near the area.

Hundreds of residents of various races had gathered to greet Samy Vellu, who is Works Minister, and the Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate for the Ijok by-election, K. Parthiban, 38, yesterday.

The residents, 90% of whom comprise the Indian community, also expressed their appreciation to the BN Government for looking into the problem caused by smoke emitted from a glove factory nearby.

Samy Vellu said the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment had asked the factory to install an appropriate device to overcome the smoke pollution.

Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo said the opposition was being narrow-minded and had deliberately confused the voters in Ijok by saying that Muslims could not vote for non-Muslims.

“Muslims can vote for anyone for cooperation, as was practised since the time of the Prophet,” he said.

“We have to be fair to anyone even if they are of a different religion and even if we have to fight a war for them, we would do so because in Islam, we have to take care of the non-Muslims who can cooperate with the Muslims,” he said after handing over sponsored Science and Mathematics workbooks to schools in Ijok. – Bernama.