Bangkok: Thailand's anti-government "Red Shirt" United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) protesters promise to lay siege to any venue where a regional ASEAN summit might be held in the kingdom next month and to personally lodge complaints to all member states of the regional bloc against Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his Democrat Party-led coalition government.

During an off-parliament debate focusing on the Abhisit administration, Puea Thai Party MP Chatuporn Prompan announced that the Red Shirt demonstrators had planned to besiege any place where the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, earlier postponed from late last year to next month, might take place in this country.

Former foreign affairs minister Noppadon Pattama and former prime minister's office minister Jakrapob Penkair will deliver letters of complaint to each of the nine other member states of the regional grouping to personally explains their case against Abhisit, whom the UDD considers unfit, unethical and underserving of the top government post, according to Chatuporn, a leading organiser of the Truth Today news talk programme.

Chatuporn said Abhisit was alleged to have dodged the military draft and robbed the Puea Thai Party of a number of its members of parliament who had switched sides to select him as premier instead of Puea Pandin Party leader Pracha Promnok.

Meanwhile, he said, the Red Shirt protesters have called on Abhisit to immediately dissolve the House of Representatives and call a general election as well as to depose Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya whom they considered as unfit and detestable, following his involvement in the earlier Yellow Shirt Peoples Alliance for Democracy (PAD) protests.
Source : PTI