Free Malaysia Today, 30 Apr 2011For the first time, Singapore’s ruling Peoples’ Action Party (PAP) is seeing the fight of its life in the ongoing general election. At least that is what the general ground consensus appears to be or if the size of the people attending rallies held by political opposition parties, is a gauge by any means.
According to Yahoo news, some 15,000 people attended the rally held on April 28 by the opposition Workers Party (WP), the party bequeathed by its former secretary-general JB Jeyaretnam to the current sitting secretary-general, Low Thiang Kiang.
Another 5,000 attended a similar rally held by Kenneth Andrew Jeyaretnam, who is now helming the Reform Party, the political party the elder Jeyaretnam founded shortly before he died in 2008. Full story
