Nee Soon GRC is indeed an interesting constituency,As a SMC the constituency was formed in 1988.Traditionally rural Chinese area with Malay kampongs where SDP's Cheo Chai Chen won once before before it disappeared .Finally in 2011 when Nee Soon Central, Nee Soon East, Nee Soon South, Chong Pang and Canberra had merged into a newly formed Nee Soon GRC.The interesying aspect is many ethnic Indians from the old Sembawang/Naval Base are relocated here.Hence a strong presence of Indians in this GRC.
It's against this background that PAP was obliged to fiels one of it's top ethnic Indian candidate in Nee Soon GRC.K.Shanmugam,along with Tharman is one of the top two ethnic Indian ministers in the current PAP cabinet.Not only he is a top 10 of the elite laywer in their fraternity,he also held the key cabinet post of Home Affairs to clean up WKS mess.Such is the quality of PAP Indian candidate WP was up against.
But who did WP field against PAP Indian candidate ?.....another ethnic Indian a political novice who hardly had an 'O" level who was more than reluctant to join the fray.And it was none other than Sylvia herself who had persuaded Sanjeev to stick out his neck.Despite the very very poor quality of it's Indian candidate the WP team still garnered more or less 42% of the valid votes coasted.Whooooweee!
This is where everything about Sylvia stinks to the high heavens.
In short,there was a very good chance of winning the Nee Soon GRC had SDP fielded it's minority candidates such as Dr.Vincent Wijaysingha or even a WP team with say,Pritam Singh...Look! Sylvia knows rather well that it was the Malay votes she lost in the same Aljunied GRC in 2006 GE.
So,why did she deliberately chose to lose in Nee Soon and depriving of other worthy opposition party who could have won the Nee Soon GRC?