DRP plan protest to “serve red notice” to government
13 May 2010, 4:16 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The main opposition Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) is organising a mass demonstration in Male’ tonight to protest the government’s decision to raise electricity tariffs.
The protest will take place near the tsunami monument at 8.30pm and will call on the government to restore the price of electricity units to the rates that existed in December 2008.
At a press conference yesterday, DRP MP Ahmed Nihan said “the government will be forced” to reverse the hiked rates as a result of the protest.
Nihan warned that the protest “could get heated and might be drawn out.”
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