(Selangor, 18th) About 20 residents from Ban Da Ma Lan New Village's Wooden House Road in Klang showed up to peacefully petition today, taking advantage of Selangor DAP's representative assembly, and urged the ruling DAP in Selangor to honor its promises to voters and properly handle the eviction issue involving the local wooden house area!
According to observations, the residents who came to petition were blocked outside the assembly venue in Klang. Some DAP representatives approached to calm the residents' dissatisfaction, while uniformed police officers monitored the situation nearby.
The residents held up large placards filled with accusations outside the venue, condemning the DAP for "only conning votes without working," and "once walked together, now abandoned us," expressing their disappointment that the party, even in power in Selangor, still could not resolve the problem.
Liu Xiulan, deputy secretary of the Wooden House Road Residents Association, later confirmed in an interview that DAP National Chairman Gobind Singh had earlier received the residents’ memorandum and stated he would help address the eviction issue.
Liu Xiulan said: "After all, it was us voters who elected DAP as the state government. Now that we're facing forced eviction, they are duty-bound to fulfill their promises and peacefully help us to resolve the problem. There are still 40 village houses carrying the pressure of ongoing court cases."
In the memorandum, residents also requested that the Selangor state government, in any future negotiations, communicate directly with the local residents association or their lawyers. They also demanded the fulfillment of the 2018 Selangor State Assembly decision, namely, to construct various types of houses as demolition compensation and at the same time pressure the developer to compensate the 29 residents whose houses have already been forcibly demolished.
According to reports, after decades of confrontation with the developer, the Wooden House Road area could not escape demolition last November, which resulted in clashes, with as many as 12 activists and 11 villagers being arrested.