SINGAPORE: A photo from 2018 of Mr Tan Chuan-Jin and Ms Cheng Li Hui found on Mr Baey Yam Keng’s Facebook led to new speculation as to whether the former Speaker of Parliament’s affair started years earlier.

Going as far back as 2018 into Mr Baey’s Facebook page, netizens dug up an old photo of running buddies Baey, Grace Fu, Tan Chuan-Jin and Cheng Li Hui.

“What’s a good way to end two weeks of parliament sittings? A run with Speaker of Parliament and Leader of the House!” posted Mr Baey on March 8, 2018. He also tagged Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, Ms Grace Fu and Ms Cheng Li Hui in the image. Netizens were quick to point out and speculate that the body language of Mr Tan and Ms Cheng was telling.

Mr Baey and Ms Fu were in the foreground of the photo and did not appear to stand as close together as Ms Tan and Ms Cheng, who were in the background.

Another netizen pointed out that since Prime Minister Lee said in his speech that other ministers also tried to counsel Mr Tan and Ms Cheng against the relationship, it was likely that a number of others were also aware of the affair.

We’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions from the photo. What do you think? Leave a comment on our social media. 

PM Lee said he was first alerted to the relationship between Mr Tan and Ms Cheng after the last general election in 2020. “I do not know when it began, but they were spoken to, counselled. Unfortunately, the matter didn’t close and so it came to the hard conversation we had in February this year.”

Mr Tan, 54, is married with two children while Ms Cheng, 47, is not married. Mr Tan was the Speaker of Parliament while Ms Cheng was an MP for Tampines East. /TISG

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