As Kita Lawan prepares for its mega rally in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow, DAP has refused to participate as it is not in favour of gatecrashing the wedding reception of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's daughter.
When contacted, DAP national organising secretary Anthony Loke admitted this.
As such, he said the party has not instructed its members to join the protest tomorrow, which is to press for the release of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
"There is no instruction to join," Loke told Malaysiakini but added that there was no directive prohibiting DAP members from participating either.
However, with this decision, it is expected that most DAP top leaders would be absent from the protest.
Protesters would gather at three locations, namely Masjid Jamek, Dataran Merdeka and the PAS headquarters before marching to the Sogo shopping mall and subsequently to the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) at 4pm.
Najib's daughter, Nooryana Najwa Najib and her husband, Kazakhstan national Daniyar Kessikbayev, would be holding their wedding reception at KLCC tomorrow.
The reception for VIPs is slated for 8pm.
Yesterday, PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli ordered the mobilisation of all party members to join the rally tomorrow.
The directive asked PKR members to support the rally at Sogo but made no mention about going to KLCC.
Aside from demanding for Anwar's release and protesting the police crackdown on dissent, the rally tomorrow would also focus on the upcoming goods and services tax (GST) and the debt-riddled 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
Following the directive to participate in the rally, Rafizi today was arrested by the police at his service centre for sedition. - M'kini
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