PAP's East Coast team welcomes Edwin Tong into fold: DPM Heng

He says they will work together until detailed GRC slate changes announced

- Goh Yan Han

The PAP's East Coast GRC team welcomes Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong to the team and will work with him until detailed changes to the GRC's slate are announced, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat on March 15.

"Our commitment to serve our residents has not changed. We remain as committed as ever, because we've been elected by our residents, and we want to make sure that we fulfil our promise," he added.

Mr Tong's Joo Chiat ward was subsumed into East Coast GRC in the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee (EBRC) report released on March 11.

DPM Heng spoke to the media at the end of a morning walkabout in Simei Plaza — which is in Ms Jessica Tan's Changi-Simei ward — where all five MPs from the East Coast GRC team were present.

Mr Tong was not, as the Second Minister for Law was on a work trip to Hong Kong.

"(Mr Tong) would have liked to join us for the walkabout. Unfortunately, he's on a work trip that was planned some time ago," said Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information Tan Kiat How, who looks after the Kampong Chai Chee ward. He is also Senior Minister of State for National Development.