Time to move on from Meet-the-People Session incident, says Shanmugam

Minister says focus should instead be on building a stronger community together

- Deepanraj Ganesan

It is time to try and move on from the incident involving two sisters from an activist group who disrupted a Meet-the-People Session (MPS) in Chong Pang, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam.

The focus should instead be on building a stronger community together, and that includes having discussions to talk about issues, including difficult ones, but in a constructive way, he added.

That is the approach in Singapore among all the cultures, he said.

Mr Shanmugam was speaking on March 27 on the sidelines of a visit to the former North View Secondary School, which is now being used as a temporary prayer site while the Darul Makmur Mosque undergoes upgrading works.

He said: "There is a video about the incident. I don't really want to talk more about it. People can see the video, and my view is that we ought to try and move on.