Bersih rally: Umno Youth will have to face consequences, says Hisham

(Bernama) – Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said Friday that Umno Youth will have to face the consequences of their action if they proceed with their intention to hold an illegal rally on July 9.

Hishammuddin, who is also former Umno Youth chief, said nobody was above the law and that they (Umno Youth) would have to deal with the police just like others.

“My advice is the same to everybody and, as I mentioned in Parliament, the police are looking at this as a security issue.

“I think when it comes to this, it doesn’t matter if I am a former Umno Youth chief. Umno Youth will have to face whatever consequences of their action, as I had to when I was Umno Youth chief in my time,” he told reporters after a meeting with an Australian delegation and representatives from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and International Organisation for Migration (IOM) here.

Hishammuddin was asked to comment on Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin’s announcement that they would also be organise a rally this July 9 to hand in a memorandum to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong supporting democracy and the role and reformation carried out by Election Commission (EC).

The Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) is also organising a rally on that day.

Asked whether the stand taken by the Youth was Umno’s stand, Hishammuddin said the decision to organise the rally was an executive committee decision.

Therefore, he said, it was purely the Youth’s stand, not Umno’s as a whole.