The anti-PTPTN students have been standing firm on the grounds that they have every right to hold their sit-in protest at Dataran Merdeka. <br /><br />This is their fourth day, which has been trouble-free even though City Council officers and police are nearby occasionally moving in to make their presence felt.<br /><br />Tonight the students and their supporters have continued with their programmes; they had national laureate A Samad Said recite his poems and later law professor Azmi Shahrom gave a lecture on Article 153 of the Federal Constitution.<br /><br />Article 153 refers to the position of the Malays and the natives of Sabah and Sarawak and the other ethnic communities of Malaysia.<br /><br />Earlier, Deputy Higher Education Minister Saifuddin Abdullah advised the students to end their protest out of respect for the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. The King would be in attendance at a Royal Concert on April 21 at Dataran Merdeka to mark his recent coronation.<br /><br />Saifuddin in his statement said that it is their right to demonstrate even though he didn't agree with their demands to end the education loan policy. <br /><br />We ask one of the student leaders Haziq Abdul Aziz secretary of Solidarity Mahasiswa Malaysia to comment on the deputy minister's statement.
