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[h=2]Partisanship? RC members discard opposition flyers![/h]
April 27th, 2013 |
Author: Contributions
When I went for NSP’s walkabout last Wednesday, I heard
some of the Party volunteers narrate about how Residents’ Committee members
would sneakily discard NSP’s informational flyers which the Party volunteers
would leave behind in flats when there appeared to be no one at home, because
the RC members did not want the residents to receive what an opposition Party
has got to say.
Hmm…here we have a grassroots organisation which is supposed to be apolitical
and serve all residents regardless of political affiliation, which recently
received $44 million in Government funding [Link] to rejuvenate itself; where at least some of its members
act in a manner which is anything but apolitical, but are let off scot-free
because of its symbiotic relationship with the ruling Party.
And then you have a community activist, Nizam
Ismail, who the State media (another organisation with symbiotic
relationship with the PAP) has claimed has acted in a partisan manner because he
participated in one opposition political Party event on invitation, and at a
rally of citizens to express our collective unhappiness over the population
White Paper.
It doesn’t count that he participated in his personal capacity says the State
media (‘SPH’s deputy editor defends ‘removal’ of Nizam from AMP‘),
because even if he did, because of ‘his position in AMP’, he was endorsing ‘the
politics of the organisers’, it claims.
Ironic!
.
Ravi Philemon
* This article was first published in Ravi Philemon’s facebook. He is a
member of NSP.
some of the Party volunteers narrate about how Residents’ Committee members
would sneakily discard NSP’s informational flyers which the Party volunteers
would leave behind in flats when there appeared to be no one at home, because
the RC members did not want the residents to receive what an opposition Party
has got to say.
Hmm…here we have a grassroots organisation which is supposed to be apolitical
and serve all residents regardless of political affiliation, which recently
received $44 million in Government funding [Link] to rejuvenate itself; where at least some of its members
act in a manner which is anything but apolitical, but are let off scot-free
because of its symbiotic relationship with the ruling Party.
And then you have a community activist, Nizam
Ismail, who the State media (another organisation with symbiotic
relationship with the PAP) has claimed has acted in a partisan manner because he
participated in one opposition political Party event on invitation, and at a
rally of citizens to express our collective unhappiness over the population
White Paper.
It doesn’t count that he participated in his personal capacity says the State
media (‘SPH’s deputy editor defends ‘removal’ of Nizam from AMP‘),
because even if he did, because of ‘his position in AMP’, he was endorsing ‘the
politics of the organisers’, it claims.
Ironic!
.
Ravi Philemon
* This article was first published in Ravi Philemon’s facebook. He is a
member of NSP.
