Punggol GRC battle to save the sinking ship

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GE2025: Gan Kim Yong helms PAP team against WP in new Punggol GRC​

 

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GE2025: Gan Kim Yong helms PAP team against WP in new Punggol GRC
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GE2025: Gan Kim Yong helms PAP team against WP in new Punggol GRC​

Gan Kim Yong and Dr Janil Puthucheary at the Yusof Ishak Secondary School.
PHOTO: AsiaOne

Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong will lead the People's Action Party to contest in the new four-member Punggol GRC, moving from Chua Chu Kang GRC where he served as MP for 14 years.

The 66-year-old's candidacy was a closely guarded secret leading up to Nomination Day on Wednesday (April 23).

Gan arrived at the nomination centre in Yusof Ishak Secondary School in Punggol Central at around 11.30am to submit his nomination papers for Punggol GRC.



The other members of PAP team in the GRC are Dr Janil Puthucheary, Sun Xueling and Yeo Wan Ling.

Leading up to Nomination Day, there was much speculation that who would be the anchor the PAP slate for Punggol GRC.

Punggol GRC, with 123,557 voters, was created after the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee recommended carving out the Punggol estates in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, to merge with Punggol West SMC.

The PAP will face a fight with the Workers’ Party, which is fielding newcomers Harpreet Singh, Jackson Aw, Siti Alia Abdul Rahim Mattar and Alexis Dang

 

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WP fields fresh faces in Punggol GRC as DPM Gan Kim Yong leads PAP slate in surprise​

Workers’ Party will field Harpreet Singh, Jackson Au, Siti Alia Abdul Rahim Mattar and Alexis Dang in Punggol GRC, where they will face a People’s Action Party team led by Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong. This marks a surprise shift from his previously announced Chua Chu Kang posting.

The Workers’ Party (WP) has confirmed its team for Punggol GRC in the upcoming General Election, set to be one of the most closely watched contests.

Filed on 23 April 2025, the WP’s team features four fresh faces: Harpreet Singh, Jackson Au, Siti Alia Abdul Rahim Mattar and Alexis Dang.

In a surprising move, Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong will lead the People’s Action Party (PAP) slate in the same constituency.

DPM Gan’s inclusion was not pre-announced. He was originally expected to anchor PAP’s team in Chua Chu Kang GRC.

He appeared at Yusof Ishak Secondary School — the nomination centre for Punggol GRC — at around 11:20am, confirming his new role.

Joining him in Punggol are returning MPs Janil Puthucheary, Sun Xueling and Yeo Wan Ling, forming a team of experienced members.

Observers note that this is the second successive election featuring a surprise appearance by a deputy prime minister.

In 2020, DPM Heng Swee Keat made headlines when he was fielded unexpectedly in East Coast GRC.

DPM Gan’s shift saw Manpower Minister Tan See Leng take his place in Chua Chu Kang GRC.

Tan was sighted earlier at Jurong Pioneer Junior College, the nomination centre for Chua Chu Kang.

He had been seen just hours before at PAP’s Mountbatten branch with the Marine Parade-Braddell Heights team.

WP’s East Coast GRC line-up was also confirmed on 23 April. It includes former NCMP Yee Jenn Jong and GE2020 candidate Nathaniel Koh.

They are joined by new entrants Jasper Kuan, Sufyan Mikhail Putra and Paris V Parameswari, reflecting WP’s mix of experience and renewal.

The contrast between PAP’s experienced slate in Punggol and WP’s all-new team may shape the campaign narrative ahead.

Harpreet Singh is widely seen as WP’s leading candidate in Punggol and has drawn early attention as a “star catch”.

Both sides now turn their focus to the campaign period, with attention expected to remain high on Punggol GRC due to its political significance and the surprise deployment of a senior Cabinet member

 

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Battle of Chiobus Alexis Dang vs SunXueling

Who more chio will win!

 

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12:00pm - Yusof Ishak

PAP has confirmed their team for Punggol GRC: Gan Kim Yong (formerly Chua Chu Kang GRC), Sun Xueling, Janil Puthucheary and Yeo Wan Ling.

 

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Punggol residents please send gan for early retirement

 

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Versus

 

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Punggol residents please send gan for early retirement

I agree. He has milk enough taxpayers money

 

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April 23 2025,
WP team arrives at Yusof Ishak Secondary School

A WP team comprising new face Harpreet Singh arrives at Yusof Ishak Secondary School. PHOTO: AsiaOne/Yeo Shu Hui
A WP team comprising new faces Harpreet Singh, Jackson Au and Alexis Dang arrive at Yusof Ishak Secondary School.

Singh said he had a good sleep and that the "team is ready to go and speak up for Singaporeans".

Yusof Ishak Secondary School is the nomination centre for East Coast GRC, Pasir Ris - Changi GRC, Punggol GRC and Sengkang GRC.

Sengkang GRC incumbents He Ting Ru, Louis Chua and Associate Professor Jamus Lim are also at this centre.

WP has yet to reveal its hand for the hotly contested East Coast GRC, as well as Punggol and Tanjong Pagar GRCs.

 

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Let this Punggol ceca ship sink

 

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Please remember Gan Kim Yong forced you to vaccine or else....was the threat. And how many of you elderly family died?
So return the favour and teach him who is boss.

 

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Punggol PAP uplorry liao. Normally I support people with the surname Gan ... especially Hokkien Gan because I owe my enlightenment to a Hokkien mentorship.

But Alexis and Harpreet will win.

 

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Punggol PAP uplorry liao. Normally I support people with the surname Gan ... especially Hokkien Gan because I owe my enlightenment to a Hokkien mentorship.

But Alexis and Harpreet will win.

Alexis for Punggol. Yeah!

 

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Alexis for Punggol. Yeah!

Wrong .... Punggol Rui En.

 

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Punggol PAP uplorry liao. Normally I support people with the surname Gan ... especially Hokkien Gan because I owe my enlightenment to a Hokkien mentorship.

But Alexis and Harpreet will win.

Wah... Whahhahahahahah
Laugh till lampah cramped...Whahhahahahahah

 

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I expect the possibility of Harpreet contesting in Ponggol but didn't expect WP will give up on MP GRC without a fight

 

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I expect the possibility of Harpreet contesting in Ponggol but didn't expect WP will give up on MP GRC without a fight

Macpherson strong PAP boomer voters now in Marine Parade GRC..very hard for WP.

Swing voters are mainly younger voters not old farts who only want CDC and GST vouchers...

 

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A Bayi got no chance against GKY

 

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I expect the possibility of Harpreet contesting in Ponggol but didn't expect WP will give up on MP GRC without a fight

Focus more on the Punggol GRC. Younger residents there.

 

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Focus more on the Punggol GRC. Younger residents there.

Yep. Swing voters likely to be young voters and not old boomer voters who want status quo.