I note I write to TOC:
Thank you TOC for getting the story from the hawkers themselves. Yes, this has been overblown and unnecessarily so.
Miscom or not, all the WP needed to do was to do what TOC has just done - just go and talk to the hawkers directly and kautim (settle) the issue. Then you wont get hawkers sending petitions.. Instead Sylvia and Pritam decided to argue and argue and argue. What for? Bottom-line is - cleaning whether higher or lower than 2.5m is still the job of the TC and the hawkers have already paid for this in their SC & C charges. So just do the bloody cleaning and when the hawkers are satisfied, there is nothing for nobody to hantam you.
The lesson here for the WP young turks is to pick your fights. There are some where you just deal with the problem and move on. Thankfully, Mr Low TK has done just that and in so doing demonstrated the maturity of a real leader who cares for his people beyond politicking. Sylvia Lim and Pritam Singh should learn to curb their rapidly growing egos and follow humbly in the footsteps of their leader, Mr Low. That is unless they think they know better than him how to run the WP and that he should just be the mentor emeritius in the party