Sengkang Potential PAP team working 'with passion' to win over residents

A new, younger slate of potential candidates from the PAP has been working the ground hard in Sengkang GRC from as early as 2022, when Covid-19 pandemic restrictions were lifted, said former senior minister of state Lam Pin Min.

- Ang Qing and Kok Yufeng

The ruling party knows it is always a challenge to try to win back a constituency, especially a group representation constituency, but the PAP team's effort so far "speaks for itself", Dr Lam, 55, said at a walkabout on March 30.

The ophthalmologist was flanked by the other PAP branch chairpersons for Sengkang – Ms Theodora Lai, 39, a principal at private equity firm Tembusu Partners; Associate Professor Elmie Nekmat, 43, who teaches communications and new media; and Mrs Bernadette Giam, 38, a director at local food and beverage enterprise Creative Eateries.

"Even as a new team, we are working very hard on the ground," said Dr Lam.

Dr Lam, who has been active in Sengkang West since 2006, was the only PAP representative retained from the party's previous slate that lost Sengkang GRC in 2020. The election was only the second time that the WP had won in a GRC, after it prevailed in Aljunied in 2011.

"We started walking the ground the moment Covid-19 restrictions lifted, and in fact for Elmie, myself and Theodora, we have been walking the ground for the past three to four years," he said.

The PAP team will be doing a lot more walkabouts in the days ahead, with the aim of visiting all parts of Sengkang, he added.