Pritam Singh says ministers can continue serving Singapore if not re-elected: 'Singaporeans need not feel guilty'
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In his nearly 30-minute speech to a packed crowd in Hougang on Thursday (May 1), Workers' Party secretary-general Pritam Singh made several counterpoints to what the People's Action Party (PAP) had said throughout the nine days of campaigning this General EPritam Singh says ministers can continue serving Singapore if not re-elected: 'Singaporeans need not feel guilty'
In his nearly 30-minute speech to a packed crowd in Hougang on Thursday (May 1), Workers' Party secretary-general Pritam Singh made several counterpoints to what the People's Action Party (PAP) had said throughout the nine days of campaigning this General Election. Notably among them was Pritam's rebuttal to PAP's warning that losing ministers would weaken Singapore, reiterating his earlier remarks that Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong, who made a surprise move from Chua Chu Kang GRC to contest Punggol GRC this GE, was not «indispensable». «If Gan is not re-elected, Singaporeans need not feel guilty — after all, you did not put him at risk, the PAP did,» said the party chief, adding that DPM Gan and other ministers can continue serving Singapore even if they lose in an election. Further refuting PM Wong's caution that a weakened mandate would make it harder for the PAP to represent Singaporean's interests internationally, Pritam also said that the PAP will still have a «very big» majority in Parliament even if all 26 WP candidates were elected. Read more
