Bangkok: The supporters of Thailand`s embattled Premier Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday dispersed from their rally site at the outskirts of the capital, vowing to regroup again for a bigger mass demonstration after a week-long spring festival break.
Thailand and Myanmar will celebrate `Songkran` this week to welcome the arrival of spring by splashing water on each other like Holi but use talcum powder instead of colours.
The pro-government Red Shirts activists had come from north and north east of the country to show support to Yingluck, who is facing mounting legal cases -- including charges of neglect of duty and abuse of power -- that could see her removed from office in coming weeks.
The Red Shirts dispersed after Jatuporn Promphan, the chairman of the pro-government United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship, told them to return home and get ready to come back for a bigger mass demonstration after the Songkran holidays.
The Red shirts gathered at the road, which borders Bangkok and Nakhon Pathom province on Saturday to show their force to protect the government and warn the military against staging a coup.
Meanwhile, The National Security Council (NSC) said it was not confident that it will be able to fully control any civil unrest if anti-government and pro-government demonstrators take to the streets.
"With so many people out on the streets, we don`t have the confidence," NSC secretary general Paradorn Pattanatabut said.
Tension is apparently rising as independent agencies are expected to deliver their rulings on some cases against caretaker Yingluck very soon.
"Key factors are the rulings from independent agencies," Paradorn said.
The anti-government People`s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) said, "If the government doesn`t accept the scrutiny by independent agencies and the Constitutional Court, the PDRC will have to organise a really big move to protect the constitution."
The government called a snap election in February, but that was obstructed by protesters. Since then Thailand has been in a state of political paralysis.
The Constitutional Court later nullified the February poll.
The anti-government protesters accuse Yingluck of acting as a proxy for her fugitive brother, former premier Thaksin, who was ousted in a coup in 2006.
