People's Action Party's (PAP) former Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC leader Tan See Leng insisted that he did not abandon the ward to move to Chua Chu Kang GRC.
During a walkabout in Teck Whye on Saturday morning (April 26), Dr Tan mentioned that he promised Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong and residents that he would "take care of the constituency and do it well".
During a walkabout in Teck Whye on Saturday morning (April 26), Dr Tan mentioned that he promised Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong and residents that he would "take care of the constituency and do it well".
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00:00I don't think I've ever abandoned Marine Parade.
00:03It was a walkover.
00:05It was a walkover.
00:07It was a walkover.
00:09I said that three times.
00:10There's no abandonment here.
00:12We're a solid team there.
00:14And the fact is that because of the initiatives,
00:19I think that the opposition has chosen to redeploy their own talents elsewhere.
00:27So, given the fact that it is a walkover,
00:32I felt that I have to stand up when called upon to go to anywhere
00:37that the party and the country think they need me to go.
00:42I think that, to me, is what is uniquely Singaporean,
00:47that we will go wherever we are called upon.
00:49So, as far as we are concerned, there's no abandonment here.
00:53Look at the walkabouts and you've seen the warmth,
00:59the emotional attachment, the deep connections that the residents have for DPM Gun.
01:04I don't think that he abandoned.
01:06On Thursday, when I first came,
01:08I felt that there was a lot of the residents when I met up with them.
01:14They were sad and they were actually sort of very worried about
01:19and apprehensive about DPM Gun relocating to Hong Kong.
01:24But they felt that the entire national strategy is what is needed for the country.
01:29So, I told them that, I reassured them that DPM Gun personally asked me
01:33to take care of the constituency and to do it well for him.
01:36And I can see that, after walking through, how much of love, how much of attachment
01:41and how much of that close connections DPM Gun has with all of the residents here at Chow Chukang.