DAAD leaders 'kept some cash'

The members and those close to the deposed premier said they were dissatisfied with the lower-than-expected turnout and that the DAAD leaders had failed to spark a wider protest.

"Some [DAAD leaders] may have kept the [money] supplies to themselves," the party source said.

Police and city officials completed clearing the rally site at Government House yesterday morning after the red-shirts called off their protest late on Thursday night.

Rally organiser Veera Musigapong vowed to revive the protest within a month. The opposition movement will continue until the government agrees to dissolve the House, he said.

Most of the red-shirts began dispersing from the rally site after their leaders announced at 11pm on Thursday night that the demonstration would end yesterday morning.

Not many waited around for the leaders to end the rally officially in the morning.