WP's contest in the Moulmein Kallang GRC in GE 2011 seems to have left a sore point in the NSP, particularly for the NSP's former secretary general, Goh Meng Seng. Goh, who led the NSP in the elections last May, has apparently been nursing a grudge since. He has talked of an "ultimate form of retribution" for the WP if the NSP were to contest in the Hougang by-election and cause the "greatest" impact on the WP candidate.
He said "NSP may be justified to join the by-election because it would be a form of 'revenge' against the Worker's Party" for "muscling" in on Moulmein-Kallang GRC, which the NSP had wanted to contest, in last May's elections. At that time, the NSP withdrew and ceded the GRC to the WP, which eventually lost to the PAP's team there.
But talk of "revenge" and "retribution" is just that — talk. Goh no longer leads the NSP and indeed is not even in the party's Central Executive Committee. It is unclear if he is a member of the NSP itself. Thus, his preference to inflict damage on the WP with a three-cornered fight in Hougang will unlikely come to pass. Full story
