By Thai Newsroom Reporters
OUTSPOKEN PEOPLE’S MP Rukchanok Srinork today (June 24) reassured that she and fellow lawmakers of the largest opposition party will certainly remain undaunted by unlawful influence of de facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob in regard to the contentious THAI-AI Passport project pushed by his son/Digital Economy & Society Minister Chaichanok Chidchob.
The opposition lawmaker apparently referred to possibilities that Newin might do anything to her, albeit in clandestine fashion, only to get her out of the way of the questionable AI project endorsed by his son who concurrently acts as secretary-general of the Bhumjaithai, core of the current coalition government.
“If we were so afraid of whatever Chaichanok’s father might possibly do to any of us, we wouldn’t bother to do anything in the course of national and public interests at all,” Rukchanok told reporters, referring to herself and fellow legislators of the largest opposition party.
In addition, Rukchanok advised all members of the Bhumjaithai rank and file particularly including the MPs constantly staunch to the de facto party boss to contain themselves from launching verbal counterattacks on critics of the AI project in defence of his son who, she said, has recently remained tightlipped over the issue whilst letting others speak on his behalf about it. Those defenders of Newin’s son and supporters of the allegedly nepotism-driven AI project remarkably included Digital Economy & Society Undersecretary Pachara Anantasilp, according to the People’s MP.
“In particular, all MPs who are basically supposed to represent the people and who earn their monthly pay out of the taxpayer’s money are primarily obliged to speak for the sake of public interests and not for their bosses,” she said.
According to partisan sources, Chaichanok could not personally afford to “lose face” over the AI project which has been ultimately thwarted by Rukchanok and other opposition lawmakers, thus prompting those among the Bhumjaithai rank and file to speak out on his behalf.
Meanwhile, the People’s MP expressed personal appreciation for the Budget Bureau to have completely nullified an estimated 900 million baht in planned funding for an initial-stage implementation of the AI project out of the government’s budget legislation for fiscal 2027.
The disputable AI project had been originally designed to cost some 1.6 billion baht and initially won by the so-called TH Consortium between Turnkey Communication Service Co. and Human Intelligence Co., executive officials of which had been allegedly covertly associated with the digital economy minister.
Rukchanok pledged to see to it that the entire project be finally scrapped because, she said, it would be otherwise prone to partisan nepotism and not be worth the taxpayer’s money.
CAPTIONS:
Top and Front Page – Digital Economy & Society Minister Chaichanok Chidchob talking to People’s MP Rukchanok Srinork at Parliament recently. Photos – Amarin TV
Insert – De facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob. File photo – PPTVHD36
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