Singapore polls: Workers Party is not a lite version of PAP, says Pritam Singh

Workers' Party chief Pritam Singh (centre) talking to a resident during a walkabout at Kovan Hougang Market and Food Centre on July 2. With him is former party chief Low Thia Khiang. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Workers' Party chief Pritam Singh on Thursday (July 2) pushed back on the suggestions that the WP is just a lite version of the PAP, calling the claim made by Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan during a televised debate an electoral ploy.

Asked during a walkabout in Kovan on Thursday about Dr Balakrishnan's remarks that the WP manifesto outlined positions so similar to that of the PAP that the ruling party could have written it, Singh said: "If that was the case, I hope the PAP takes up all our manifesto points and introduces them into their agenda, because that will really change the shape of Singapore, and we will have a more caring and compassionate society."