PAP and PSP volunteers get into altercations during outreach to residents

A series of altercations between volunteers from the ruling PAP and the opposition Progress Singapore Party (PSP) in Bukit Gombak on Jan 4 has gone public on social media.

- Ng Wei Kai

Each side is alleging harassment by the other, offering a different account of what happened.

Chua Chu Kang GRC MP Low Yen Ling, in a Facebook post on Jan 8, said PSP volunteers started the altercation when both teams encountered each other during their outreach to residents.

One man from PSP intimidated a PAP volunteer and slapped his face twice, she said, adding that the PSP man also taunted a second PAP volunteer, among other hostile acts from the PSP group.

Her account differs from an earlier one from PSP member and former election candidate S. Nallakaruppan, which was posted on Facebook on Jan 4.

He said PAP volunteers had started following his party's Chua Chu Kang team during PSP's block visits at Goodview Gardens in Bukit Gombak, which is in Ms Low's ward in Chua Chu Kang GRC.

On Jan 8, PSP chairman Tan Cheng Bock posted a video allegedly taken by a PSP volunteer in a lift.

In the video, a man is filming PSP volunteers at close range with a mobile phone. It is unclear if the man filming is a PAP volunteer.

A PSP volunteer has since filed a police report over the incident.