Thousands of anti-Thaksin demonstrators participating in the People’s Alliance for Democracy rally yesterday march from the Siam Paragon shopping mall to protest in front of the Election Commission’s offices.

A group of 20 academics, students and doctors of Thammasat University's Faculty of Medicine sent an open letter to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra asking for his resignation.

The statement said politics was heading for a deadlock. People are apprehensive and worry that the situation might lead to violence like in the past.

Having Thaksin as the caretaker premier was not the solution because the public doesn't have faith and trust in him anymore. The only way out was to appoint someone else to run the government during the election to ensure it was conducted fairly and transparently. Thaksin had to yield to a more acceptable figure for the sake of the country.

Seven representatives of Egat's labour union also sent a letter asking Thaksin and his ministers to step down.

Union head Sirichai Mai-ngarm said after the Supreme Administrative Court ruled on March 23 to void the two royal decrees facilitating Egat's privatisation, the group believes Thaksin and the Cabinet had offended the law.