The Workers’ Party team led by its secretary general Pritam Singh and chairperson Sylvia Lim were at Bendemeer Market & Food Centre and Whampoa Market & Food Centre over the weekend for a hammer outreach, the two places coming under the Jalan Besar GRC.
Joining the party leaders were members of parliament from WP such as Dennis Tan from Hougang SMC, Faisal Manap from Aljunied GRC, and two MPs from Sengkang GRC He Ting Ru and Louis Chua. Candidates from the previous elections such as Fadli Fawzi and Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim were also present.
It was a familiar place for Chua as he used to live in that area when he was young before his parents bought a place of their own. While he may not recall everything, he remembers some of the weekend activity around the neighbourhood with his parents.
“Returning to Bendemeer (also known as “Mang Kar Ka as described by my Grandma) felt like a homecoming of sort, as I was told by my parents that we used to live at Block 30 in the initial years when i was born, before my parents bought their HDB flat at Bishan,” posted Chua on Facebook.
“I was too young to remember anything…but I do recall visiting the markets over the weekend with my parents when I was a child, as we went about the usual breakfast and grocery shopping rounds. There used to be those motorized kiddy cars and bikes at the open area which I enjoyed a lot!
WP last contested the Jalan Besar GRC in 2015, getting 32%. In the 2020 Singapore general election Lim Tean’s Peoples Voice went up against the PAP team led by Josephine Teo, garnering 34% of the votes.