While all the effort to communicate and resolve our issues ignored, the residents decided to stage a protest at the Malaysia Parliament House during one of the sitting.
The residents conducted a peaceful protest at the Parliament on the 19 Sept 2005. Arriving in the morning, close to about 100 residents of Sri Petaling lifted their spirits and colorful banners to voice their displeasure for the construction of the highway so close to their homes.
We prepared a memorandum to be handed to some of the Members of Parliament for the purpose of highlighting our struggle. We met Dato Shahrir Samad who is the chairman of Backbenchers Club and Public Accounts Committee (PAC). He received our memorandum and agreed to investigate into the matter. We also distributed leaflets which was circulating in the House hoping the Works Minister would take notice our effort to contact him.
Here are some of the selected pictures . (Click on the pictures to see the whole gallery)
We finally managed to meet the Works Minister, Samy Vellu and he mentioned a few statements regarding the project indicating that he is not afraid to meet the residents because he is NOT in the wrong. He got all fired up and screamed when one of the residents made a harsh but true comment about him and the project.
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The following were some of the achievements during the protest.
- We managed to achieve the following at the parliament picketing
- Distributed about 400 flyers to all passer-by going in and out of the Parliament
- Met up with Dato Shahrir, Chairman of Public Accounts Committee to present our case
- Press interview with ntv7
- Finally we managed to meet Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu on his way out of the Parliament
We hope the Minister would seriously look into our request this time.
26KM stretches from Kampung Pandan to Putrajaya
LLM, DBKL, DOE say they are not aware about the sheer proximity of the highway to the homes!