I am indian - punjabi. does it matter
I want to
sacrifice my life for the million dollar salary.
The hakka peranakan baba Harry Lee Kuan Yew says that Singapore
is not ready for indian prime minister.
So how? You are indian. Million dollar salary also gone.
Around
this time you were discussing the succession to PM
Lee?
Lee Kuan Yew
had been discussing this since about 1983. At that time, the second
echelon was Tony Tan, S. Dhanabalan, Goh Chok Tong and
myself.
Were
you a candidate for the top job?
I was
considered as a member of the group. At that time, we did not know
who would be the successor to Lee. We finally made the decision to
pick Goh Chok Tong. He agreed on condition that I agreed to be his
number two. So I was the second DPM; he was the first DPM. In 1988,
Lee asked Goh to take over, but he was not ready. He said: two more
years. So two years later, he took the job.
Lee did
not agree with your decision to pick
Goh.
No, he did not
disagree. He said he would leave it to us. His own
first choice was Tony Tan. Goh Chok Tong was
his second choice.
I was his third choice because he
said my English was not good
enough.
He said
Dhanabalan was not right because Singapore was
not ready for an Indian prime minister. That
upset the Indian
community. There was quite a bit of adverse
reaction to what he said. But he speaks his mind. He is the only
one who can get away with it.
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw00/000310a4.htm
Dhanabalan was not right because Singapore
was not ready for an Indian prime
minister.
