In her latest post on her personal blog in almost a year, Workers’ Party (WP) chairman Sylvia Lim declared Hougang residents are a “special” group of people.
Lim wrote, “What’s so special about Hougang? In summary, Hougang residents have shown that they will defend democracy in their own backyard, even if it costs them.”
She went on to recount an incident 15 years ago when she asked her then secretary, a Hougang resident, how it felt to have transport routes to her area cut after WP chief Low Thia Khiang first wrested control of the constituency.
“She told me something which I remember vividly to this day: ‘Never mind—if we have no train, we will take bus! If we have no bus, we can walk!’,” she wrote. Full story
