Double Protest Over Water
Two opposing groups are set to go head-to-head with each planning to submit a memorandum to Istana Negara on Sunday on issues involving the Selangor government.
Fee-fi-fo-fum I smell trouble in the air! Do you?
Malaysiakini reported HERE that two opposing groups are set to go head-to-head with each planning to submit a memorandum to Istana Negara on Sunday on issues involving the Selangor government.
The article stated that a thousand-strong group of ‘red shirts’ (supporters of the Selangor government) and some 2,000 ‘black shirts’ (members of a movement opposed to the state government) will march to the palace that day.
The Selangor government will organise a march from the National Mosque to the palace as part of the Air Untuk Rakyat (Water for People) campaign. The protestors are requesting royal intervention in the state’s water tussle with the federal government and water concessionaire Syabas which may see the water tariff skyrocket by 37 percent.
On the other hand, the Anti-Selangor Abuses Movement (Gaps) is protesting alleged abuses by the Pakatan Rakyat-led Selangor government such as the allegations about illegal mining of sand, the purchase of the debts of property developer Talam Corporation and the closure of Institut Kemahiran Yayasan Selangor. The group that will be wearing black shirts, will gather at the Masjid Jamek in Kampung Baru at 12.30pm and then march to the palace.
In such a scenario where thousands are going to gather for opposing reasons, I really pray that all parties concerned will keep their cool and not be provoked in any circumstance.
However, imaginative me can almost see what may happen…
