SINGAPORE: A disciplinary panel looking into whether Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh had breached the party’s Constitution after his conviction for lying to Parliament’s Committee of Privileges, has completed its investigations.
In a statement on April 4, WP said that the panel will be presenting its finalised report and recommendations to the party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) in April.
The Notice of the Special Cadre Members’ Conference will be issued within two weeks thereafter.
The disciplinary panel, comprising Sengkang GRC MPs He Ting Ru and Jamus Lim, as well as former Hougang MP Png Eng Huat, was set up by the CEC in January and came after the High Court upheld Pritam’s conviction in December 2025 following his appeal.
The court found that Pritam had guided former MP Raeesah Khan to maintain a lie she told in Parliament in August 2021 and that he lied to the committee about asking her to come clean.
In January, all 11 WP MPs present in Parliament voted against a motion moved by Leader of the House Indranee Rajah, which found Pritam unsuitable to continue as Leader of the Opposition (LO).
Following this, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Jan 15 removed Pritam from the role, citing his criminal conviction and Parliament’s opinion.
PM Wong had invited the WP to nominate another MP for the LO role, but the party declined, leaving the post vacant. - The Straits Times/ANN
