MPs should come from the ground, says NSP head
SINGAPORE — National Solidarity Party chief Sebastian Teo yesterday (Sept 2) criticised the People’s Action Party’s (PAP) slate of candidates, which includes high-flyers plucked from the civil service and the military.
“The army should go to battle. The surgeons should go to hospitals. Why should they go to the ministries?” said Mr Teo to reporters, after a walkabout on yesterday morning at Tampines RoundMarket and Food Centre. “(An) MP should come from the ground ... from all walks, not the army, the police, the government servants ... They should stay in the government service (to serve the public).”
Mr Teo isleading the party’s five-member team in the contest at Tampines GRC against a PAP’s line-up helmed by Education Minister Heng Swee Keat.