By Zakir Hussain , POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
OPPOSITION parties stepped up their walkabouts in single-seat
constituencies across the island on Sunday, a day after they failed
to reach full agreement on who should stand where to avoid
three-way fights.
Having agreed to resolve the problem bilaterally, the parties
hope their intensified efforts will give them an edge in pressing
their claims to contest the eight newly created single seats.
These are: Hong Kah North, Mountbatten, Pioneer, Punggol East,
Radin Mas, Sengkang West, Yuhua and Whampoa.
In Whampoa, four opposition parties are eyeing the seat but
National Solidarity Party (NSP) council member Ken Sun argues that
it should be his as he contested the constituency when it was a
single seat back in 1988.
'Since then, we have never deserted Whampoa. We continue to walk
about the place almost every month,' he said.
'It has virtually not been improved since the time I stood here
in 1988,' he added, saying that a polyclinic and recreational
activities were badly needed.
