A domino effect of mistakes beginning with former Workers' Party MP Raeesah Khan's lies in the House in 2021 has put Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh's parliamentary position in doubt. Leader of the House Indranee Rajah tabled a motion which was heard in Parliament on Wednesday (Jan 14) questioning Singh's suitability to continue in the role. Here's a timeline of how events unfolded, beginning with Khan's untruths. Aug 3, 2021: WP puts forth a motion in Parliament on empowering women. Khan delivers a speech claiming to have accompanied a purported sexual assault victim to a police station, and alleging that the case was mishandled by the police. Aug 7, 2021: Khan admits to Singh that her anecdote was untrue. Aug 8, 2021:  Khan tells WP leaders Singh, Sylvia Lim and Faisal Manap that she was a sexual assault victim and admits to lying in Parliament. Singh is alleged to have said: «this would probably be something that we would have to take to the grave». 

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The decision on whether Workers' Party (WP) chief Pritam Singh should continue as Leader of the Opposition rests with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, said Leader of the House Indranee Rajah on Wednesday (Jan 14). She had filed a motion in Parliament stating that Singh's conduct was dishonourable and unbecoming of an MP, and that it renders him unsuitable to continue as Leader of the Opposition. This comes after he was convicted and fined $14,000 in February last year on two counts of lying to a parliamentary committee over the case of former MP Raeesah Khan. His conviction was upheld in December after an unsuccessful appeal. In her speech, Indranee said that the motion does not call for the removal of the Leader of the Opposition. Since the Leader of the Opposition is designated by the Prime Minister, PM Wong will decide if Singh is to be stripped of this appointment — not Parliament. 

Pritam Singh’s approach to the Raeesah Khan lying incident showed a «failure of leadership» on his part, Leader of the House Indranee Rajah said on Wednesday (Jan 14),Speaking on the motion of Singh’s suitability as Leader of the Opposition which she had tabled before the Parliament sitting, Indranee summed up on what she said are a number of “dishonesties” from the Workers’ Party (WP) chief.Singh had told Khan, a former WP MP, to maintain her lie to Parliament, even though she had confessed to him in August 2021.He then lied to the public and concealed material information from his own party, according to Indranee.«There are simply too many lies — they pile up, one on top of another, each to cover up a previous lie,» she said.«And that is a problem as Mr Singh is also the Leader of the Opposition.»Singh was convicted and fined $14,000 in February last year for lying to a parliamentary committee. His conviction was upheld in December after he appealed against it.

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