DAP reminded of its objection to project

(The Star) PETALING JAYA: The Selangor state government will be misleading Subang Jaya residents if it allows the privately-owned Subang Ria park to be developed.

Kelana Jaya MCA chairman Ong Chong Swen said the DAP, as the opposition party in 2007, had objected to the development and condemned the Barisan Nasional government for considering the plan.

“During the 2008 election campaign, this issue was raised by the opposition party and the message then was that they were one with the rakyat. Now they are kowtowing to the developer,” she said in a statement.

She said Subang Jaya assemblyman Hannah Yeoh met with the landowner and residents last year, and the residents were clearly unhappy with the plan to develop the park.

Ong also took Selangor executive councillor Ronnie Liu to task for proposing that the owner be allowed to develop a small part of the land if they could agree to keep the rest of the area as a park.

She said the previous state government had proposed this too, but it was strongly objected to by the DAP.

“I would like to ask the reasons for objecting to the development back in 2007. Was the objection made for the sake of objecting because the DAP was not then in government, or was it because the party was not aware of the local government agenda?

“If the Pakatan Rakyat government accepts the plan to develop the area, no matter how small, you would have misled the rakyat and you owe them an apology,” she said.

Meanwhile the Subang Jaya Residents Association wants Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim to intervene to prevent the Subang Ria Park from being developed.

Association chairman A. S. Gill called on Khalid to gazette the land as a recreational park.