KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 — Unhappy with the Goods and Services Tax (GST)’s roll-out next April and the recent fuel price hike, activists armed with a memorandum to voice their grouses will stage a march to Parliament tomorrow.

When contacted by Malay Mail Online, Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM’)s secretary-general S. Arutchelvan said about 15 NGOs including his party are involved in the joint rally by the two coalitions of anti-GST movement BANTAH and anti-fuel price hike movement PROTES.

“We have submitted a letter to Parliament telling that we are going to submit a memorandum to the prime minister and the Opposition leader,” he said, estimating that between 200 and 300 people will show up for the march, but also said the numbers could be lesser as it was a workday.

Other NGOs involved in tomorrow’s walk are student movements Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) and Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia (SMM), Asalkan Bukan Umno (ABU), Jaringan Rakyat Tertindas (Jerit), said Arutchelvan, who is more popularly known as Arul.

Arul also said that the PAS Youth wing is mobilising people to join the march tomorrow.

He said about 100 NGOs are endorsing tomorrow’s rally — which comes just two days before Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak tables Budget 2015 in Parliament, with observers speculating that Putrajaya could further cut back on subsidies on essential food items and reform the current fuel subsidy system to channel aid to targeted needy groups.

While Arul said the letter to Parliament was delivered today, he confirmed that the organisers did not inform the police about tomorrow’s event, saying that Parliament would likely notify the police.

In a statement today, SAMM said the activists will gather at 10am at the country’s Tugu Negara or the National Monument, before walking to Parliament — which is about 10 minutes’ away.

SAMM said that the activists will submit the memorandum to both Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and Barisan Nasional federal lawmakers.

SAMM chief Badrul Hisham Shaharin told Malay Mail Online both DAP and PKR members are sitting on the BANTAH and PROTES committees, but also said the rally was open to the public and is intended to show the dissatisfaction of Malaysians over the sudden fuel price hike which he believed would hurt the low-income group the most.

When asked about a purported rally against the fuel price hike last Saturday that failed to materialise, Arul said both Bantah and Protes were “definitely” not the organisers of the alleged protest at Dataran Merdeka.

“That one we don’t know who is the organiser,” he said, adding that the name of the organiser was never publicly disclosed.

Last Wednesday, the Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Ministry announced that fuel subsidies will be cut by 20 cents, increasing the prices for RON95 petrol and diesel to RM2.30 per litre and RM2.20 per litre respectively.

Last week, PAS Research Centre executive director Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad urged the government to publicly disclose if it will be imposing the six per cent GST on petrol and diesel, saying that imposing the consumption tax on fuel would spark a “chain effect” and lead to inflation.

Last month, Putrajaya was forced to deny reports that petrol and diesel would be subjected to the GST, with Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Ahmad Maslan saying that the government has “not made a final decision” on this matter.