PM assigns red shirts to deal with protests
The prime minister has instructed for a proactive campaign to address the people's grievances and designated the red shirts to preempt the protests from eruption.
PM Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday appointed deputy secretary general to the prime minister Prasit Chaiviratana to lead the panel in charge of the campaign, deputy government spokesman Anusorn Eiamsa-ard said.
Anusorn said he and a number of red shirts, who are presently office horders at Government House, would also be on the Prasit panel.
The panel will proactively work to resolve the plight of the people instead of waiting for problems and complaints to arise, he said.
Unlike the past practice of acknowledging complaints without taking action, the panel will ensure a speedy action to tackle the grievances, he said.
With prompt attention to grievances, the prime minister hoped protests would not erupt, he said. Even if villagers rally at Government House, the red shirts on the panel would be tasked to deal with their demands so as to end the protests as soon as possible, he added.
This week dozens of villagers from the Northeast have been camping out near Government House to demand for farm land.
