SINGAPORE: Ms Raeesah Khan, the Workers’ Party candidate whose alleged social media comments are being investigated by the police for promoting “enmity between different groups”, said on Sunday night that she regretted making “insensitive” remarks and apologised to those who may have been hurt by them.
“I feel really passionate about minority issues regardless of race and in my passion, I made improper remarks and I have to be accountable for them,” she said, adding that she will “fully cooperate in any police investigations”. He also said that it would be “speculative” for him to comment if the matter would affect the candidacy of the team and how the party would respond to that.
“For me personally, I don't encourage and would be actually a bit disappointed if our candidates would try to sanitise their past, and I think they should be upfront and authentic to the public. This is who they are. Mr Singh elaborated that as part of the WP’s candidate selection process, it considers whether the individual is able to connect and empathise with the public.
Mr Singh was also asked by a reporter if this was part of a series of attempts to cast aspersions on the WP’s Sengkang GRC team. He replied: “I don't want to speculate on what the motives and intentions of some of these people are but as far as our candidates are concerned ... if there's a response that needs to be made, I would fully expect the candidates to respond accordingly.”
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