He's a managing director and a graduate of the University of Kerala. He can afford it.
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Ah Neh new citizen stands as independent candidate in Bt Buttock SMC
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He's a managing director and a graduate of the University of Kerala. He can afford it.
Vote for PAP and you'll see more 'funny funny' nationalities contesting in future elections.
The Neh may win, shocking both PAP and opposition camps.
There may be enough new citizens from India to form a sizable voting bloc, and they would vote for their own kind. I am rooting for Samir!
When that happens, the whole govt will become India Indians. We need racial quota for govt, not just GRC!
Make him lose his deposit.
Anyway it is shocking that people who are not natural-born citizens would be allowed to contest in elections. What a cuntry!
PAP is not doing a good job to protect citizens' rights to allow not natural-born citizen to contest in election! They must go learn from USA!
It is not a remote possibility at all. I have seen India Indians contesting in condo management committee and become the majority in the committee.
What a put off he is - Indian-Muslim, non-NS served. AFAIK local Indians are averse to India-born ahnehs. Hence, his chances of getting Indian votes is very slim. Chinese vote are a definite no no. Malay votes are also in doubt as our Malays do not vote on religious lines.
Indian-born guys are reputed for their stinginess. Hence, I am wondering how he is prepared to throw away $14,500 + other expenses. Is there a sponsor? Furthermore, many foreigners like him would steer clear from politics to avoid being on the adverse side that may jeopardize their opportunity to make bucks and fly home. Has he the backing of an unseen hand in the filing of his papers ? The important feature of his polls participation is that it proves foreigners have integrated into the Singaporean society, something that our leaders have been harping on for some time.
Indian-born guys are reputed for their stinginess. Hence, I am wondering how he is prepared to throw away $14,500 + other expenses. Is there a sponsor? Furthermore, many foreigners like him would steer clear from politics to avoid being on the adverse side that may jeopardize their opportunity to make bucks and fly home. Has he the backing of an unseen hand in the filing of his papers ? The important feature of his polls participation is that it proves foreigners have integrated into the Singaporean society, something that our leaders have been harping on for some time.
I have a suggestion. For those who stay around Bukit Batok area, should he hold a rally, just go and shout and heckle him with whatever obscenities that you can muster at the rally. The police should not be present since they are only around to protect MIWs. This guy will quiet quiet slink away with his tail between his legs thereafter. That will show how we welcome people like him to Singapore.
They are a very sensual people.
[video=youtube;079myhxAvwU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=079myhxAvwU[/video]
You're right. CSJ was rumoured to stand at BB.
He is leading by example by running at a GRC.
Hope SDP can help Sinkies get rid of the useless VB and the arrogant Sim Ann.
How Bukit Batok came to have three corners
Published 1 September 2015
Out of nowhere, an independent candidate popped up to contest the Bukit Batok single-member constituency (SMC). His presence greatly upset some Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) supporters who were expecting a straight fight between their candidate Sadasivam Veriyah and the People’s Action Party’s (PAP) David Ong. This made Bukit Batok one of three SMCs that will see three-cornered fights this general election.
Independent candidate Samir Salim Neji’s nomination attempt was first disqualified by the election returning officers at Keming Primary School which served as the nomination centre for Bukit Batok and three other constituencies. He came to the centre with three other persons, when the rules require that each nominee should present a proposer, a seconder, four assentors, and can also have “one other person” present, making a total of eight persons including the nominee/candidate. With only four persons in Samir Salim’s group, it didn’t look as if he met the criteria.
pic_201509_02The proposer, seconder and assentors must all be registered voters in the respective constituency. The “one other person” is typically the election agent who attends to all supporting activities to aid the candidate in his or her campaign.
I was in the nomination centre to observe all this as I had agreed to be one of the assentors for SDP’s candidate for Yuhua, Jaslyn Go. Keming Primary School also served as the nomination centre for Yuhua constituency.
It took only a few minutes for the officials to turn Samir Salim away. A few SDP supporters went over to speak to him, and (I was later told), it seemed that his problem was that his other assentors were either overseas or failed to show up at the nomination centre. I also heard that he had been “in Singapore” for fifteen years.
It should be noted — not that race is any issue here, but just to help understand the next part of the narrative — that all four persons in Samir Salim’s group were non-Chinese. They appeared to be of South Asian origin.
It wasn’t long before a flurry of conversations occurred among the PAP people in the nomination centre, and ten or fifteen minutes later, fresh documents were brought before the nomination centre officials. It turned out that the PAP had offered three persons living in Bukit Batok to be Samir Salim’s assentors, thus saving his candidacy from disqualification. At the close of the one-hour nomination window, this form was posted for public viewing, showing three Chinese names as his assentors, making the requisite four:
After 12:30pm, the accepted nominees were formally announced, and all candidates had a chance to make a short speech to the assembled crowd, which mostly comprised PAP supporters, with a sprinkling of red-shirted SDP supporters. Samir Salim spoke only in English. “No Tamil?” I whispered, to no one in particular. “He’s from Kerala,” came a reply from a stranger close by. How true that is I cannot say, but I’m sure we will know over the next few days from other sources.
The SDP supporters were quite upset by this turn of events. Their knee-jerk reaction is understandable: they think the third candidate’s presence on the ballot will split the “opposition vote”. First of all, I think it’s a caricature to speak of a unified “opposition vote”, but secondly, I think it can very well be argued that giving voters a choice can’t be bad thing. Of course the counter-point can also be made that if one of the more established opposition parties were short of assentors, the PAP wouldn’t be lending them any, so it’s not as if we can read this gesture from the PAP to be as noble as it may first appear.
https://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/how-bukit-batok-came-to-have-three-corners/
Published 1 September 2015
Out of nowhere, an independent candidate popped up to contest the Bukit Batok single-member constituency (SMC). His presence greatly upset some Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) supporters who were expecting a straight fight between their candidate Sadasivam Veriyah and the People’s Action Party’s (PAP) David Ong. This made Bukit Batok one of three SMCs that will see three-cornered fights this general election.
Independent candidate Samir Salim Neji’s nomination attempt was first disqualified by the election returning officers at Keming Primary School which served as the nomination centre for Bukit Batok and three other constituencies. He came to the centre with three other persons, when the rules require that each nominee should present a proposer, a seconder, four assentors, and can also have “one other person” present, making a total of eight persons including the nominee/candidate. With only four persons in Samir Salim’s group, it didn’t look as if he met the criteria.
pic_201509_02The proposer, seconder and assentors must all be registered voters in the respective constituency. The “one other person” is typically the election agent who attends to all supporting activities to aid the candidate in his or her campaign.
I was in the nomination centre to observe all this as I had agreed to be one of the assentors for SDP’s candidate for Yuhua, Jaslyn Go. Keming Primary School also served as the nomination centre for Yuhua constituency.
It took only a few minutes for the officials to turn Samir Salim away. A few SDP supporters went over to speak to him, and (I was later told), it seemed that his problem was that his other assentors were either overseas or failed to show up at the nomination centre. I also heard that he had been “in Singapore” for fifteen years.
It should be noted — not that race is any issue here, but just to help understand the next part of the narrative — that all four persons in Samir Salim’s group were non-Chinese. They appeared to be of South Asian origin.
It wasn’t long before a flurry of conversations occurred among the PAP people in the nomination centre, and ten or fifteen minutes later, fresh documents were brought before the nomination centre officials. It turned out that the PAP had offered three persons living in Bukit Batok to be Samir Salim’s assentors, thus saving his candidacy from disqualification. At the close of the one-hour nomination window, this form was posted for public viewing, showing three Chinese names as his assentors, making the requisite four:
After 12:30pm, the accepted nominees were formally announced, and all candidates had a chance to make a short speech to the assembled crowd, which mostly comprised PAP supporters, with a sprinkling of red-shirted SDP supporters. Samir Salim spoke only in English. “No Tamil?” I whispered, to no one in particular. “He’s from Kerala,” came a reply from a stranger close by. How true that is I cannot say, but I’m sure we will know over the next few days from other sources.
The SDP supporters were quite upset by this turn of events. Their knee-jerk reaction is understandable: they think the third candidate’s presence on the ballot will split the “opposition vote”. First of all, I think it’s a caricature to speak of a unified “opposition vote”, but secondly, I think it can very well be argued that giving voters a choice can’t be bad thing. Of course the counter-point can also be made that if one of the more established opposition parties were short of assentors, the PAP wouldn’t be lending them any, so it’s not as if we can read this gesture from the PAP to be as noble as it may first appear.
https://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/how-bukit-batok-came-to-have-three-corners/
How Bukit Batok came to have three corners
Published 1 September 2015
Out of nowhere, an independent candidate popped up to contest the Bukit Batok single-member constituency (SMC). His presence greatly upset some Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) supporters who were expecting a straight fight between their candidate Sadasivam Veriyah and the People’s Action Party’s (PAP) David Ong. This made Bukit Batok one of three SMCs that will see three-cornered fights this general election.
Independent candidate Samir Salim Neji’s nomination attempt was first disqualified by the election returning officers at Keming Primary School which served as the nomination centre for Bukit Batok and three other constituencies. He came to the centre with three other persons, when the rules require that each nominee should present a proposer, a seconder, four assentors, and can also have “one other person” present, making a total of eight persons including the nominee/candidate. With only four persons in Samir Salim’s group, it didn’t look as if he met the criteria.
pic_201509_02The proposer, seconder and assentors must all be registered voters in the respective constituency. The “one other person” is typically the election agent who attends to all supporting activities to aid the candidate in his or her campaign.
I was in the nomination centre to observe all this as I had agreed to be one of the assentors for SDP’s candidate for Yuhua, Jaslyn Go. Keming Primary School also served as the nomination centre for Yuhua constituency.
It took only a few minutes for the officials to turn Samir Salim away. A few SDP supporters went over to speak to him, and (I was later told), it seemed that his problem was that his other assentors were either overseas or failed to show up at the nomination centre. I also heard that he had been “in Singapore” for fifteen years.
It should be noted — not that race is any issue here, but just to help understand the next part of the narrative — that all four persons in Samir Salim’s group were non-Chinese. They appeared to be of South Asian origin.
It wasn’t long before a flurry of conversations occurred among the PAP people in the nomination centre, and ten or fifteen minutes later, fresh documents were brought before the nomination centre officials. It turned out that the PAP had offered three persons living in Bukit Batok to be Samir Salim’s assentors, thus saving his candidacy from disqualification. At the close of the one-hour nomination window, this form was posted for public viewing, showing three Chinese names as his assentors, making the requisite four:
After 12:30pm, the accepted nominees were formally announced, and all candidates had a chance to make a short speech to the assembled crowd, which mostly comprised PAP supporters, with a sprinkling of red-shirted SDP supporters. Samir Salim spoke only in English. “No Tamil?” I whispered, to no one in particular. “He’s from Kerala,” came a reply from a stranger close by. How true that is I cannot say, but I’m sure we will know over the next few days from other sources.
The SDP supporters were quite upset by this turn of events. Their knee-jerk reaction is understandable: they think the third candidate’s presence on the ballot will split the “opposition vote”. First of all, I think it’s a caricature to speak of a unified “opposition vote”, but secondly, I think it can very well be argued that giving voters a choice can’t be bad thing. Of course the counter-point can also be made that if one of the more established opposition parties were short of assentors, the PAP wouldn’t be lending them any, so it’s not as if we can read this gesture from the PAP to be as noble as it may first appear.
https://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/how-bukit-batok-came-to-have-three-corners/
So after taking over the bank jobs, these India Indians are on track to take over the MP jobs, assisted by PAP to meet nomination requirements.
Source: Citizen's Journal
What an insult for Singapore to have an alien running for parliament with assentors from the PAP. I was at the Nomination Centre today when I saw four people speaking in heavy Kerala accent and wondered what they were doing here. To my horror, one of them was running as a candidate for Bukit Batok and the other 3 ( who were all his relatives ) were acting as Assentors. Because Mr Samir did not have enough Assentors, ( 6 as required by law ) he was not allowed to proceed with his candidacy .
A little later, I was so shocked to see PAP personnel in their usual all white attire come forward to act as his Assentors making him eligible to stand as a candidate in Bukit Batok ! I ws speechless ! Many of us were witness to this event, including Mr Alex Au of Yawning Bread and this is what he has to say : https://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/how-bukit-batok-came-to-have-three-corners/#more-11409
What an insult for Singapore to have an alien running for parliament with assentors from the PAP. I was at the Nomination Centre today when I saw four people speaking in heavy Kerala accent and wondered what they were doing here. To my horror, one of them was running as a candidate for Bukit Batok and the other 3 ( who were all his relatives ) were acting as Assentors. Because Mr Samir did not have enough Assentors, ( 6 as required by law ) he was not allowed to proceed with his candidacy .
A little later, I was so shocked to see PAP personnel in their usual all white attire come forward to act as his Assentors making him eligible to stand as a candidate in Bukit Batok ! I ws speechless ! Many of us were witness to this event, including Mr Alex Au of Yawning Bread and this is what he has to say : https://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/how-bukit-batok-came-to-have-three-corners/#more-11409
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PAP saves two opposition teams today. What is the world coming to? Can't the Opposition get their act together? It's been 50 years since Independence. Ah Gong did the right thing by locking them up and ridding us of people who irritate us with their gross incompetence. One opposition candidate needed PAP to provide assentors, and another opposition team needed a PAP candidate to save them from being disqualified due to their own carelessness in filling out a form.
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