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Minister Calls Out Leong Mun Wai's Past 'Racist' Comments
The Straits Times
|February 06, 2025
Non-Constituency MP Leong Mun Wai's past remarks show that he does not put much value in the Government's multiracial approach to policies, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam on Feb 5.
The minister pointed to prior comments that the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) NCMP had made in the House on the Singapore-India Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca), and on social media about public housing.
Mr Shanmugam noted that when questioned in Parliament on September 2021, Mr Leong had accepted that some PSP members had found his statements on Ceca to have targeted the Indian community. "Mr Leong was good enough to say there will be some people who will think that there is a racial undertone to his statements," he said.
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