DHAKA: The leader of Thailand’s pro-government ‘Red Shirt’ movement called Thursday for a national referendum to resolve a political deadlock that prompted the army chief to declare martial law.

Jatuporn Prompan said he made the proposal a day earlier during closed-door talks between the kingdom’s warring political camps that were ordered by army general Prayut Chan-O-Cha.

‘Whatever the outcome is, we are ready to accept it (a referendum result),’ Jatuporn said at a press conference, reports The Straits Times.

‘We are not extremists who don’t listen to anything.’

BDST: 1232 HRS, MAY 22, 2014