Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's former classmate at Pre-Cadet Academy would show force on Friday against the Pithak Siam group, former army chief Chaisith Shinawatra said.
Alumni of class 10th at the Pre-Cadet Academy would gather at a Bangkok hotel to show their support to the government under Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and their former classmate Thaksin, said Chaisith who study in the class fifth at the military academy and also a cousin of Thaksin.
"I do not organise the gathering but our brothers want to express their view. Many of my classmate and I will join them to show our stance," he said.
"It's not the right thing to call a protest to topple the elected government," Chaisith said referring to the anti-government protest. "If the government did anything wrong we should allow the parliament to scrutinise in accordance with democratic way."
Retire General Boonlert Kaewprasit, the leader of Pithak Siam (Protecting Siam) movement, said the next rally against the government would be held on November 24 or 25 and he expected that the number of demonstrators would be 20 times higher than the last rally.
Boonlert's movement held a rally at the Royal Turf Club on October 28, drawing more than 10,000 demonstrators.
He said he would hold a press conference tomorrow to announce more details of the next rally. He said he expected more than 100 groups of activists to join the press conference.
He said he believed the yellow shirted People's Alliance for Democracy would join the next rally although PAD leaders have announced they would not participate in the protest.
Boonlert said the protest would be held on the same causes and he would lay down his "thump card" to try to topple the government if the rally failed to bring it down.
"If the next rally fails, everything will be over and I will not hold another rally. I'll stop my role because I'll regard that the people do not support me," Boonlert said.
"But if a lot of people join the rally and we still fail to oust the government, I'll unveil my thump card."
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