Rahman Dahlan: Red shirt rally was dirty but no smell of urine

PETALING JAYA: Unlike Bersih 4 demonstrations, there was no evidence of "bad smell of urine" amid the sea of rubbish in Kuala Lumpur after the 'red shirt' rally on Wednesday.

"Yes there were rubbish. But unlike Bersih demo, this time the bad smell of urine was not evident," Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan (pic) tweeted on Wednesday.

The Minister of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government however said a clean-up bill would still be sent to the Perhimpunan Rakyat Bersatu organisers.

"I just spoke to Alam Flora to give me the cost. They are finalising the figure. The bill will be sent to the red demo organisers," he said.

Rahman's social media pages were bombarded with queries from netizens, asking whether he would send a clean-up bill to the rally organisers.

The netizens also attached photos of rubbish strewn around the capital city during and after the rally.

To this, Rahman said even with Bersih, he waited until the cost had been calculated and then announced the figure to bill the organiser.

Bersih organisers were slapped with a RM65,000 clean-up bill, which Rahman had said was the cost of cleaning up the areas used by the demonstrators during their rally on Aug 29 and 30.

But Bersih said they would challenge any clean-up order in court, saying its group of volunteers collected rubbish throughout the rally.