SPP's Bishan-Toa Payoh team unveiling their poster to
the media. From left: Mr Benjamin Pwee, Mr Wilfred
Leung, …
Singapore People's Party (SPP) new candidate and
former government scholar Jimmy Lee says he hopes to create a "more
robust political environment".
A former assistant chief information officer at the Ministry of
Defence, Lee was officially unveiled together with SPP's founding
member, Mr Mohamad Hamim Aliyas, at a Toa
Payoh walkabout on Saturday.
Together with Mr Chiam
See Tong, Mr Wilfred Leung, and Mr Benjamin Pwee, the
quintet will form the Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC team that will contest
against the People's Action Party (PAP) team led by
Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng.
Jimmy Lee hopes he can reach out to young Singaporeans
in the election. …
Lee (right), 36,who studied computer science at Cornell
University in the United States on a Defence Science and Technology
Agency scholarship, attributed his decision to join the opposition
because of his respect for the party's chief.
Currently working as a business consultant, he said he been
inspired after reading Chiam's story about how he had soldiered on
in a makeshift cubicle under a Potong Pasir
void deck during his early days as an opposition member.
The MBA holder saw how "dogged and determined" Chiam's efforts
were in making a difference for his residents that he decided to
join the opposition. He was contacted by the party early this
year.
Said Lee, "Given our political environment as it is now, the
best we can do for Singaporeans now is to step forward and be the
alternative voice. I believe that the PAP has enough people to
represent the incumbent voice."
Added fellow candidate Pwee, who was a fellow Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior
College mates with Lee: "It was not hard to get him into
SPP, I was actually quite surprised at how easy it was."
Mohamad Hamim wants to debate about the influx of
foreign workers. …
For Malay candidate Hanim (right), who has a diploma in
interactive media from Scotland's James Watt College, it will be
his second time running in the General
Election.
In 2006, he contested in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC as part of the
former Singapore Democratic Alliance, which
consists of SPP, PKMS, NSP and SJP. Hanim founded SPP in 1994 with
Mr Sin Kek Tong, who is currently its chairman.
After unveiling his team, Chiam said that he was very happy with
his line-up and if elected, they will do their best to serve the
residents of Bishan-Toa Payoh.
When asked if SPP's game plan was to focus on discontent over
DPM Wong's handling of the Mas Selamat issue during campaigning,
Pwee said, "We don't want the elections to be about personal
attacks on anybody. We want to address issues that are in the
hearts of the people because we want this to be a fair and
respectable affair."
Source:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/ex-gov-t-scholar-completes-spp-bishan-toa-20110416-103321-382.html
