 This rally degenerated into a riot with at least 180 people killed (other estimates put the death toll substantially higher).As a result, a state of emergency was declared, and Parliament was suspended; it did not reconvene until 1971.When Gerakan joined the Alliance coalition government in 1972, Syed Hussein left to help form PEKEMAS (Parti Keadilan Masyarakat Malaysia, or Social Justice Party of Malaysia), based on similar principles that Gerakan had been formed on.