The annual parade is a highlight of the annual match between the prestigious Chulalongkorn and Thammasat universities. Lattapon Yimlamai, the leader of Thammasat University’s political satire club, said yesterday that the university’s executives had sought the club’s cooperation to not target individuals or organisations. Students responsible for a similar parade from the Chulalongkorn side, said that the perceived right-leaning university had no such a thing as a “political satire parade” but rather it had a “social issue” parade. But since this year’s parade was the responsibility of political science students, they had negotiated to have one of the three parade figures address political issues, she said. Meanwhile, NCPO spokesman Maj-General Piyapong Klinpan denied any role in banning political content in the parade.

Source: The Nation Bangkok February 02, 2018 18:00 UTC