Apr 21, 2011 - Straits Times
Independents surface at Elections
Department
AT LEAST five independent candidates turned up at the Elections
Department before lunchtime on Thursday to collect or submit
application forms ahead of Nomination Day next Wednesday.
Among them was a representative for the chairman of Stansfield
Education Group, Mr Kannappan Chettiar. The representative, who is
Mr Chettiar's assistant, said his boss would contest in the
Mountbatten single-seat ward.
Another was Mr Zeng Guoyuan, 57, a former Workers' Party
candidate, who said he would be running in any uncontested
constituency. Mr Zeng was convicted in late 2009 of putting up
banners of escaped Jemaah Islamiah detainee Mas Selamat Kastari
without permission and went to jail for three weeks instead of
paying the total fines of $3,000 on three charges. He contested
under the WP banner in Bukit Timah ward in 1991.
Mr Andrew Kuan, who is likely to stand in Joo Chiat
single-member constituency, turned up at 10am and picked up forms
for SMC and GRC. At 10.20 am, a man in his 50s, who would only give
his name as Mr Cheang, collected two sets of SMC forms. He said he
would reveal all on Nomination Day.
The mysterious man who showed up at the Elections Department on
Wednesday and covered his face when approached by reporters and
then ran away, was back again on Thursday.
Asked where he was planning to contest, he said curtly in
Mandarin: "I want to go to heaven."
