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Pakatan Rakyat MPs in the federal capital are to hold a mass gathering in front of the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) on Dec 16 to hand over assessment rate hike objection letters from thousands of property owners in the federal capital.

The Federal Territories Ministry yesterday announced that the raising of property assessment rates has been postponed indefinitely until public hearings on the matter from January to March next year.

However, the closing date for objections remains the same, Dec 17.

And one day before that, the Pakatan MPs will gather with their supporters and KL property owners at Dataran DBKL at 11am to continue expressing their unhappiness on the move to raise the assessment rates.

NONE "We ask the people who object to the assessment increase to join us to show their unhappiness," DAP's Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai ( right ) said at a press conference with Pakatan MPs from the federal capital at the Parliament lobby today.

PKR’s Batu MP Tian Chua said the MPs would continue to mobilise objections to the assessment rate hike by urging the public at large to continue coming to their respective service centres and to fill up the objection forms.

According to Section 142 of the Local Government Act, each person who files his or her objection must be heard individually, and Section 145 provides that those who are not satisfied with the decision on the objections can take the matter to the court.

“We already have thousands of objection letters in our offices and we will continue collecting objection letters from the people,” Tian Chua said.

He also said the MPs are hoping that the BN MPs from KL would join the gathering.

“They have expressed their concern during our dialogues with DBKL, so it is up to them if they want to join us in this move,” Tian Chua added.