Tough fight for PAP not just in Sengkang but everywhere, says Lam Pin Min

He says his team will face more challenges in rematch with WP slate in the GRC

- Ang Qing

The fight for Sengkang GRC will be an uphill battle, given the incumbent advantage that the WP has, but the PAP team there is hopeful it will put up a good fight, said former senior minister of state Lam Pin Min.

"As a party, we understand that every election will be a tough fight, not only just in Sengkang alone. Every GRC, every SMC, will be a tough fight, and we do not want to take anything for granted," he told the media on April 20 before a walkabout with PAP's Sengkang team at Kopitiam Square in Compassvale.

Dr Lam, the only candidate retained from PAP's Sengkang 2020 team, was responding to WP chief Pritam Singh's remark a day earlier that the opposition expects "a very difficult fight" in Sengkang, citing the narrow margin of its last victory over the ruling party.

In 2020, the WP team of new faces took 52.12 per cent of the vote, beating the PAP's slate made up of then Cabinet minister Ng Chee Meng, Dr Lam, then Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs and Health Amrin Amin and lawyer Raymond Lye.

Dr Lam, who has walked the ground at all of Sengkang's coffee shops following his previous loss, was with his team members, who will be making their political debut in the upcoming election.