Singapore—Wake Up, Singapore,
a political website run by a “community of young activists” asked on
its Facebook page on June 18 why the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP)
“doesn’t allow” Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam to be the Prime
Minister.
Why doesn't the PAP allow Tharman to be PM?
Posted by Wake Up, Singapore on Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Mr Tharman, the Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies, also served as the country’s Deputy Prime Minister from 2011 to 2019, until he was replaced by Heng Swee Keat. He’s a well-beloved and highly respected political leader.
In a 2019 poll on social media which had nearly 20,000 respondents, an overwhelming 92 percent of voters
said they would choose Mr Tharman over Mr Heng to succeed Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong and become the nation’s next head of
Government. A survey from this publication, as well as a Blackbox survey commissioned by Yahoo Singapore, had similar results.
Abdullah hightailed about the popularity
of Mr Tharman and asked Mr Heng, “Is it Singapore who is not ready for a
non-Chinese prime minister, or is it the PAP (the ruling People’s
Action Party) who is not ready for a non-Chinese prime minister?”
Mr Heng said that Singapore might not be
ready yet for a non-Chinese Prime Minister, especially those from older
generations. He said that from his “own experience in walking the
ground, in working with different people from all walks of life, is that
the views — if you go by age and by life experience — would be very
different,” but added, “I do think that at the right time when enough
people think that we may have a minority leader, a minority who becomes
the leader of the country, that is something that we can all hope for.”
The above is posted in www.theindependent.sg.
The questions raised in the above comments, Is Singapore ready for a non Chinese PM or Is the PAP ready for a non Chinese PM? Which question is more relevant?
Similarly I would like to ask the following two questions. Is Singapore ready to flood the country with Indians from India? Or is the PAP ready to flood the island with Indians from India?
What is the population of Singapore, I mean Singaporeans? 3.5m? What is the size of Indians and Bangladeshis in Singapore, excluding Singaporean Indians? 500,000 or 1m?
Why is the PAP so comfortable with so many Indians in Singapore but not comfortable with an Indian PM? Or why are Singaporeans so comfortable in having so many Indians in Singapore but not an Indian PM? Which is the more relevant question?
What is the real issue? What is more problematical or treacherous to Singaporeans or to the PAP?
What do you think?
And here are some comments from www.theindependent.sg
And here are some comments from www.theindependent.sg
This was reflected in the answers given by netizens to the question posed by Wake Up, Singapore.
Fazlena Kaswadi wrote, “According
to their bubble survey, they say sporean not ready for non-chinese pm.
Only in Singapore is this kind of discrimination legal and accepted.”
Mohan Tamilmaran commented, “Cos
the PAP wants us to think that Spore, being Chinese majority, is not
ready for a non-Chinese PM. Yet the govt deems it so important that the a
President should be Malay, never mind whether or not Spore is ready.”
Another netizen, going by the name of YA AO As, answered, “They are afraid of letting go of a family business.”
One comment zeroed in on how intelligent Mr Tharman is. Lalli Maniam wrote, “Tharman is very smart, not like the ones who are sitting there and saying one can have Cotton from the sheep ”
Another netizen seems to believe so
highly in Mr Tharman that he said if the Senior Minister ever formed a
“team” on his own, he would win.
Thng Felix commented, “Tharman
shd form a team by himself and contest in the Election for the
betterment of all Singsporeans…he will win . I will vote for him 100%”
Others also wrote of him in glowing terms.
Adrian Ng wrote, “very obvious tharman is much more pm calibre than any of the 4G.The way he express n carry himself is PM material.”
PS. If I were to recommend an immigration policy to the govt, my position, not more than 50,000 nationals from any particular country would be allowed to work here at any particular time. This is not about racism but about national security.
Having too big a foreign population is an existential threat to the country and a threat to the social security and harmony of the people. Can't imagine having hundreds of thousands of them from any particular country working here at one time.
This is truly Stupidity has no Cure Disease in action.
PS. If I were to recommend an immigration policy to the govt, my position, not more than 50,000 nationals from any particular country would be allowed to work here at any particular time. This is not about racism but about national security.
Having too big a foreign population is an existential threat to the country and a threat to the social security and harmony of the people. Can't imagine having hundreds of thousands of them from any particular country working here at one time.
This is truly Stupidity has no Cure Disease in action.