Shame on you Tan Chin Siong, you are in a GRC with Lee Kuan Yew
and you were never elected into parliament, no one voted for you,
you never gave a speech to Singaporeans during elections and you
have shown arrogance by lecturing to us on "mollycuddled".
You have never faced up to any opposition politician and through
uncontested elections and a controlled state media, you became a
member of Parliamant.
If this was truely a democratic country Tan Chin Siong, your
political career would had been over a long time ago.
Shame on you Tan Chin Siong, you are a clown, a charade and a
disgrace to us.
Look, he is a back bencher http://www.pmo.gov.sg/News/Transcripts/Prime+Minister/Backbenchers+with+potential+being+tracked.htm
31 Mar 2009
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14 May 2009 News: The Straits
Times - 31 March 2009
Backbenchers
with potential being tracked
By Kor Kian Beng
(Picture: MP
Sam Tan is the only backbencher appointed to a government position
in this round of changes. He will hold portfolios at MTI and Mica
from July. - ST File Photo)
MEMBER of Parliament Sam Tan is the only backbencher appointed to a
government position in the latest round of changes, but Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong is tracking others.
There are
People's Action Party MPs who also show good potential, he told
reporters yesterday.
'I've not
promoted them yet, but we're watching them and we will promote some
of them in due course,' he said, without naming them.
But he
believes that these 'one or two' others will benefit from spending
another year or two as MPs.
'In some
cases, we can't spare them from where they are. So it's a balance
and we've just held the position for now,' he said.
Mr Tan,
50, is an MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC, executive director of the
Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) and chief executive
of networking group Business China.
He will
become Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and
Industry (MTI) and the Ministry of Information, Communications and
the Arts (Mica) on July 1.
The Prime
Minister said of Mr Tan: 'He has good ground feel. He makes very
thoughtful speeches in Parliament, recently, for example, on the
Hota amendment.'
Hota is
the Human Organ Transplant Act. Parliament debated changes last
week which will allow reimbursements to be made to living kidney
donors, among other things. The amendments were passed on March
24.
Mr Lee
revealed that Mr Tan's new appointment to two ministries are a
result of requests from both.
'He's
bilingual and he's able to contribute both in Mica and in MTI,' he
said.
'In Mica
because the Chinese media and the Chinese arts and cultural scene
are important, and in MTI because we're cultivating the Chinese
business and economic relationships, and that is a very important
account for us.'
Mr Lee
said that it will not be easy to replace Mr Tan at the self-help
group CDAC or at Business China.
'But
between the CDAC and Business China and coming in and making a
contribution in Government, I think he can make a bigger
contribution in Government,' he explained.
-end of ST article
