Thawit Klinprathum

Thawit was an ally of the military rulers Thanom Kittikachorn and Praphas Charusathien who were deposed during the democratic uprising of October 1973.

[3] During the government participation, Thawit developed a conflict with defence minister Pramarn Adireksarn of the Thai Nation Party, whom he attacked for manipulating the list of appointments of high-rank officers.

[4] Thawit was dismissed after he criticised the prime minister outspokenly for dissolving the parliament and for the government's price guarantee on rice.

[5] Before the elections in April 1976, he was replaced as Social Justice Party chairman by Air Marshal Dawee Chullasap, but took the post of secretary-general.

[9] In 2005, at the age of 80, Thawit was ordered by a court to acknowledge his paternity of a 2-year-old boy, whose mother was 18 at the time of giving birth.