No permit yet for Pakatan rally

Pakatan Youth wants to hold the rally at Stadium Merdeka but so far the stadium management have not responded

Leven Woon, FMT

The management of Stadium Merdeka has yet to give permission for Pakatan Rakyat’s Himpunan Kebangkitan Rakyat rally. The rally is scheduled to be held at the stadium on Jan 12.

PAS Youth chief Nasrudin Hassan Tantawai said they have filed an application with  the stadium authority but have not received an answer so far.

“Hence, the Pakatan Secretariat would submit a memorandum to the stadium authority on Monday to press for the permit,” he said at a press conference after the Pakatan Youth meeting today.

He said the government had before this criticised them for staging street demonstrations and asked them to move to stadium.

“Now we are requesting for stadium, and if they failed to give us the permit, they lied,” he said.

Nasrudin also said the Pakatan Youth has yet to draft a back up plan because they want the rally to be held at  the stadium.

The rally was to show the peoples dissatisfaction over clean and fair elections, anti-rare earths and listing of Felda Global Ventures Berhad.

Spearheaded by PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu, the rally is scheduled to begin at 2pm on Saturday.

Nasrudin said the Pakatan Youth hopes to  attract 100,000 youths to the rally and would conduct a nationwide pre-rally road shows beginning next Tuesday.

The entourage would travel to Kluang, Johor on Tuesday, followed by Larut, Perak (Jan 9), Gombak, Selangor (Jan 10) and Petaling Jaya, Selangor (Jan 11).

Meanwhile, the Pakatan Youth would also stage a mass gathering of youths on Feb 2.

Nasrudin said the opposition pact would touch on economics, politics, social and cultural and education.