Hundreds turn out for rally in support of Hong Kong Indigenous candidate for Legco elections
The localist group Beijing apparently referred to as the “radical separatist organisation” behind the Lunar New Year riot in Mong Kok staged a well-attended outdoor rally last night in Sha Tin.
The event, which attracted hundreds of people, was organised by Hong Kong Indigenous to pledge support for Edward Leung Tin-kei, its candidate in the Legislative Council New Territories East by-election next Sunday.
“Take back our future and our Hong Kong,” Leung, who has been charged with rioting over the Mong Kok violence, told the crowd outside New Town Plaza.
During the rally, on which the group said police had imposed a crowd limit of 100, Leung called his electioneering “a revolution of the time”.
“We have no connection to the vested interest in the old system,” he added, referring to the traditional pan-democrats from whom he distanced his group, despite their anti-mainland stance.
The crowd booed and sometimes swore when whenever a lawmaker’s name was mentioned on stage. The only legislator present was radical Wong Yuk-man, who supports Leung.