PAD gives its supporters ok to join Pitak Siam rally on 24th
The yellow-shirt movement yesterday gave the green light for its supporters to join Pitak Siam's anti-government rally at the Royal Plaza on November 24.
“I don’t invite you today to join the rally but if you’re free and it’s convenient, you should go. Our country needs someone who is brave and dares to take action like us,” Chamlong Srimuang, a co-leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), told a seminar at a hotel in Lop Buri.
He was referring to Boonlert Kaewprasit, a retired general and the leader of Pitak Siam.
PAD had resolved against joining Boonlert’s first rally at the Royal Turf Club on October 28, which surprisingly drew more than 10,000 followers.
Chamlong said PAD leaders had consulted together and agreed to postpone yellow-shirt seminars in Kanchanaburi on November 24 and Phetchaburi on November 25.
PAD saw that the November 24 gathering was an important one so its leaders wanted to encourage its supporters to join the demonstration.
Thida Thavornset, chairwoman of the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, said her movement would not stage a rally to counter Boonlert’s.
She said she would be busy opening red-shirt schools upcountry later this month.
