Traffic diversions around KL begins from tomorrow morning

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 58 roads at ten main areas of the city will be diverted from 7am tomorrow, in anticipation of the mass turnout for the Bersih 5 rally.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Amar Singh Ishar Singh (pix) stressed that there will not be any roadblocks for the rally that will take place in the vicinity of Dataran Merdeka.
He said that this was to prevent clashes between the various groups expected to turn up for the rally.
The areas affected will include: Dataran Maybank Bangsar, Little India, Brickfields, Masjid Negara, Muzium Negara, Sogo, Dataran Merdeka, Parliament, Bank Negara, Jalan Pudu, PWTC and Chow Kit.
Amar said the road detours are being done to ensure that traffic is kept under control, given that rally participants will be driving.
Amar advised members of the public to not join any of the rallies. He said that police will not hesitate to act against groups that create chaos in the city centre, echoing the statements of Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar.
He said police will be deploying enough manpower tomorrow to ensure peace and public order.
Meanwhile Bernama reported that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak slammed the opposition parties in the country for allegedly hiding behind a non-governmental organisation to fight the government.
He said that as the defeated side in the election, the opposition parties had the right to criticise the government but they had to use the proper channels to do so.
"But in Malaysia, the situation is different. The opposition parties use an NGO, which purportedly does not favour any political party and fights corruption, to pressure the government through rallies," he said in a post entitled Sandiwara Perhimpunan Pembangkang (Theatrics of Opposition Rallies) uploaded today on his www.najibrazak.com blog.
Najib said the people were aware that the NGO was actually a puppet of the opposition as almost all the rallies it had held and wanted to hold were led by leaders of opposition parties.