‘BN will be toppled this year’
A massive street rally is being planned to overthrow the ruling government. “We will mobilise a big group and rally on the streets. This is not a threat, this is a promise,” he stressed.
Lisa J. Ariffin, FMT
Pro-Pakatan Rakyat groups have vowed to overthrow the Barisan Nasional government this year through a massive street rally.
Speakers at a forum held yesterday unanimously agreed that waiting for five years until the next general election was too long, and vowed to overthrow BN this year through “force”.
The street rally is rumoured to be as early as May 17 or 18 to overthrow BN and capture Putrajaya.
“We will take to the streets and take over Putrajaya. If we really want to overthrow them, there is no other way. Democracy does not work,” Haris Ibrahim from ABU (Anything But Umno) told the 1,500-strong crowd here.
“The people cannot wait anymore. We don’t want to wait another five years. We will take the streets,” he added.
PKR vice-president and Batu MP Tian Chua mirrored Haris’ cry to overthrow BN through force, and said it was the people’s choice.
“The decision to wait another five years or fight is not the right of Pakatan leaders, the results during the polls were not of Pakatan… but the rakyat’s,” he said.
‘This is not a threat, it is a promise’
Meanwhile, student leader Adam Adli Halim challenged the authorities to arrest him for urging the public to overthrow the government.
