When I went for NSP’s walkabout last Wednesday, I heard some of the Party volunteers narrate about how Residents’ Committee members would sneakily discard NSP’s informational flyers which the Party volunteers would leave behind in flats when there appeared to be no one at home, because the RC members did not want the residents to receive what an opposition Party has got to say.
Hmm…here we have a grassroots organisation which is supposed to be apolitical and serve all residents regardless of political affiliation, which recently received $44 million in Government funding [Link] to rejuvenate itself; where at least some of its members act in a manner which is anything but apolitical, but are let off scot-free because of its symbiotic relationship with the ruling Party.
And then you have a community activist, Nizam Ismail, who the State media (another organisation with symbiotic relationship with the PAP) has claimed has acted in a partisan manner because he participated in one opposition political Party event on invitation, and at a rally of citizens to express our collective unhappiness over the population White Paper.
It doesn’t count that he participated in his personal capacity says the State media, because even if he did, because of ‘his position in AMP’, he was endorsing ‘the politics of the organisers’, it claims.
Ironic!
Ravi Philemon
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