The Move Forward party has claimed that it is a misunderstanding that its leader Pita Limjaroenrat will visit a temple in Saraburi today (Tuesday), as part of his working trip to the province.

Pita, meanwhile, wrote on his Facebook page that he is ill, so he taking a day off. “Please accept my apologies,” he wrote.

The party’s Saraburi office recently invited everyone on its Facebook page to meet Pita who, it claimed, would be making a working visit to the province and joining a religious activity at Phra Phuttachai Temple in Muang district.

August 1^st is Asalha Puja day for Thai Buddhists, who will be merit making at temples across the country.

Shortly after that, a Facebook user, Rachathee Indhorn, posted a message from the abbot of the temple, saying that the temple had no knowledge of Pita’s planned visit and had not invited him.

“The temple has never got involved in politics or invited any politician of any party to join the temple’s activities,” the abbot said.

The abbot’s message mentioned that the announcement of Pita’s planned visit to the temple was probably fake news and the work of a movement which plans to “destroy the nation, religion and the monarchy.”

Later Pukkamon Noonanant, Move Forward’s deputy spokesperson, denied that Pita had scheduled a visit Saraburi. She described it as a miscommunication between their Bangkok and Saraburi teams.

Actually Pita has plans to be with his family all day.

Meanwhile, the party’s Saraburi MP, Sorrapat Sriprach, claimed that Pita is exhausted as a result of his continuous visits to many areas, so he could not go to Saraburi.

Wiroj Lakkhanaadisorn will go instead, to listen to people’s problems.