The area lying between Perak Road and Jelutong Road is slowly turning from a squatter zone into a new urban area. In the recent past this place was so notorious for its gangsters and communists.
In the fifties and sixties, it was the stronghold of the Labour Party.....the party was so infiltrated by the communists and chinese chauvinists that riots would should just explode from this place.....
This place is also the happening place for illegal gambling and drugs. In 1970s, when the communists were eventually hounded out of this place....the gangsters took over the turf.
This was also the stronghold of DAP stalwart, Mr. Karpal Singh until 1999 election when DAP stupidly joined PAS in a pact to unseat BN.....all their Chinese deserted them......Chinese just don't trust the Islamists, no matter what they proclaim during the elections.......
Police would tread warily here.....almost like the walled city of kowloon in Hong Kong.....a no man's land....
But development and urban renewal has finally arrived, nice shops with trees planted along its thoroughfares..... I hope the City Council will keep it safe and clean and not let it turn into a slum.....
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