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NewPaper today reported that LHL and Shanmugam have held separate meetings with PE residents.
Goldfish Eyes Heng Swee Keat spoke during a CNY lunch to support.
And here is another report from TODAY:
By
Amir Hussain
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3 hours 7 min ago
PAP MPs fan out across Punggol East
SINGAPORE — The People’s Action Party’s (PAP) campaign in the Punggol East by-election picked up further intensity yesterday as six more PAP Members of Parliament (MPs), including Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin, and activists from several branches pitched in to help their man, Dr Koh Poh Koon.
They fanned out in the estate, knocking on residents’ doors and distributing Dr Koh’s flyers. On Tuesday, eight other PAP MPs, including Mr Seah Kian Peng and Mr Ang Hin Kee, arrived to help in the campaign.
Mr Tan, also a member of the PAP’s Central Executive Committee, visited two blocks yesterday evening. “I think all elections are important — whether it’s a GE (general election), whether it’s a BE (by-election) … because at the end of it, as a Government, you do need the support of the people,” he said.
“Everything that we do really has to revolve around the people and how best we can serve them. So I think, in a by-election, it’s important for us to support, so as to convey the message to the people, that it remains important.”
Ms Ellen Lee, an MP for Sembawang Group Representation Constituency (GRC) who helped with house-to-house visits yesterday, felt it seemed “a waste of energies if we’re just sitting around doing nothing”.
“We feel that since the party is in a close fight, especially over here, and on home ground as well, we feel that we need to give whatever help that we could for our own candidate,” she added.
Some, such as Sengkang West MP Lam Pin Min, said many PAP MPs were also involved in supporting the party’s effort in the Hougang by-election last May, “whether at the frontline or behind the scene”.
Speaking to reporters earlier yesterday, Speaker of Parliament and Jurong GRC MP Halimah Yacob said that despite not knowing Dr Koh for long, she found that he has “the heart to serve the people”.
Dr Koh said he started his campaign walkabouts alone to “let the residents see me as a person; get to know me first”. PAP MPs “have been working very hard behind the scenes” all along, he added.
“But when the sensing is (the residents) have started to know me and recognise me as the candidate, we’re now having (the MPs) all coming to touch base and show the solidarity of the party,” Dr Koh said.
Goldfish Eyes Heng Swee Keat spoke during a CNY lunch to support.
And here is another report from TODAY:
By
Amir Hussain
- .
3 hours 7 min ago
PAP MPs fan out across Punggol East
SINGAPORE — The People’s Action Party’s (PAP) campaign in the Punggol East by-election picked up further intensity yesterday as six more PAP Members of Parliament (MPs), including Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin, and activists from several branches pitched in to help their man, Dr Koh Poh Koon.
They fanned out in the estate, knocking on residents’ doors and distributing Dr Koh’s flyers. On Tuesday, eight other PAP MPs, including Mr Seah Kian Peng and Mr Ang Hin Kee, arrived to help in the campaign.
Mr Tan, also a member of the PAP’s Central Executive Committee, visited two blocks yesterday evening. “I think all elections are important — whether it’s a GE (general election), whether it’s a BE (by-election) … because at the end of it, as a Government, you do need the support of the people,” he said.
“Everything that we do really has to revolve around the people and how best we can serve them. So I think, in a by-election, it’s important for us to support, so as to convey the message to the people, that it remains important.”
Ms Ellen Lee, an MP for Sembawang Group Representation Constituency (GRC) who helped with house-to-house visits yesterday, felt it seemed “a waste of energies if we’re just sitting around doing nothing”.
“We feel that since the party is in a close fight, especially over here, and on home ground as well, we feel that we need to give whatever help that we could for our own candidate,” she added.
Some, such as Sengkang West MP Lam Pin Min, said many PAP MPs were also involved in supporting the party’s effort in the Hougang by-election last May, “whether at the frontline or behind the scene”.
Speaking to reporters earlier yesterday, Speaker of Parliament and Jurong GRC MP Halimah Yacob said that despite not knowing Dr Koh for long, she found that he has “the heart to serve the people”.
Dr Koh said he started his campaign walkabouts alone to “let the residents see me as a person; get to know me first”. PAP MPs “have been working very hard behind the scenes” all along, he added.
“But when the sensing is (the residents) have started to know me and recognise me as the candidate, we’re now having (the MPs) all coming to touch base and show the solidarity of the party,” Dr Koh said.
