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Court disallows bid to develop Vivekananda ashram land

DAP MP for Ipoh Barat M Kulasegaran appealed to the trustees of the Vivekananda Ashram to accept “in the best interests of Indian Malaysians” today’s High Court decision to disallow their application to quash a ministerial decision to gazette the ashram as a heritage site.

“The court decision should be the end of the attempt by the trustees to redevelop the site as a commercial venture which would have dwarfed its cultural significance,” said the the federal legislator, who has led the campaign to prevent the site from being subsumed by development.

On Oct 28 last year, Tourism Minister Mohd Nazri Aziz announced that the Vivekananda Ashram in Brickfields would be gazetted as a national heritage site.

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