BANGKOK: Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Thursday urged the Thai people to remain clam after the anti-government red-shirted group announced that it will set up a people’s army.

Leading opposition Pheu Thai Party chairman Chavalit Yongchaiyudh reportedly will be appointed as the supreme commander of the people’s army, the National News Bureau of Thailand under the state-owned Public Relations Department said.

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