Thaksin to give alms to monks, lunch with close friends on his 75th birthday
Former PM will not receive general well-wishers at his residence, his daughter says
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra would offer alms to Buddhist monks at his Chan Song Lar mansion in Bangkok on his birthday on Friday and open his house to lunch with close friends, his daughter said on Thursday.
Pheu Thai leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra said her father would make merit by giving alms to monks at his house in the morning on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
She said only persons close to her father would be invited to a lunch with Thaksin and her father would not receive general well-wishers.
Sources said Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Phumtham Wechayachai and former PM’s Office minister Puangphet Chunla-iad would be among those invited to join Thaksin’s birthday party.
Thaksin is now under parole at his house. The parole period will end this month.
Paetongtarn said Thaksin has not given alms to monks at his house for many years.
Thaksin returned from his self-imposed exile last year and underwent treatment at the General Police Hospital until he was paroled in February.
