Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha leads the cabinet on Monday on another two-day trek to the cloudy, probably rainy provinces of Phichit and Nakhon Sawan.
The first stop on Monday after his arrival in Phichit province will be at Wat Tha Luang of Muang district of Phichit, which features a luang pho phet image of the Buddha.
Weather reports for the adjoining provinces predict rain on both days of the cabinet visits.
That will be followed by two hours of what Government House spokesmen say is "meet the people". That will include tours of popular sites in Muang district of Phichit.
These meetings have been described by outsiders as flagrant electioneering. As in the past, government spokesmen deny there is any political motivation to the trip to the North.
At midday Monday, Gen Prayut is scheduled to visit the Phichit Rehabilitation Project, a Moo River floodgate programme designed to collect rain- and floodwater for agricultural use.
In the afternoon, the prime minister and party will take a train from Phichit to next-door Chum Saeng district of Nakhon Sawan.
After a quick look at construction sites including a twin-track railway, the prime minister has scheduled yet another two-hour session of "meet the people" with local leaders and "ordinary citizens of Nakhon Sawan", according to an itinerary supplied to the media Sunday by Government House.
His Monday tours are scheduled to end at a strip of "cultural markets" along the bank of the Chao Phraya River in Muang district of Nakhon Sawan.
To mark the visit, complaint sites will be established in Phichit and Nakhon Sawan on Monday and Tuesday, spokesmen said.
In Phichit, one complaint spot would be launched Monday at the provincial office of public works and town and country planning in Muang district, said deputy permanent secretary of the Prime Minister's Office Sompas Nilpan.
Also Monday, a second centre is to be unveiled at the Kwai Yai tambon administrative organisation (TAO) in Nakhon Sawan.
On Tuesday, another two complaint spots will be launched in Nakhon Sawan's City Hall.
