Nee Soon GRC is indeed an interesting constituency,As a SMC the constituency was formed in 1988.Traditionally a rural Chinese area with Malay kampongs where SDP's Cheo Chai Chen won once before before it disappeared .Finally in 2011 when Nee Soon Central, Nee Soon East, Nee Soon South, Chong Pang and Canberra had merged into a newly formed Nee Soon GRC.The interesting aspect is that many ethnic Indians from the old Sembawang/Naval Base are now relocated here.Hence a strong presence of Indians in this GRC.
It's against this background that PAP was obliged to field one of it's top ethnic Indian candidate in Nee Soon GRC.K.Shanmugam,along with Tharman is one of the top two ethnic Indian ministers in the current PAP cabinet.Not only he is a top among 10 of the elite lawyers in their fraternity,he also held the key cabinet post of Home Affairs to clean up WKS mess.Such is the quality of the PAP Indian candidate whom WP was up against.
But who did WP hose to field against a PAP Indian candidate ,who was giant in his portfolio ?.....an ethnic Indian ,a political novice who hardly had an 'O" level ad who was more than reluctant to join the fray!!!,And it was none other than Sylvia herself who had persuaded Sanjeev to stick out his neck.Despite the very very poor quality of it's Indian candidate the WP team still garnered more or less 42% of the valid votes cated.Whooooweee!
This is where everything about Sylvia Lim stinks to the high heavens.
In short,there was a very good chance of winning this Nee Soon GRC had SDP fielded it's minority candidates such as Dr.Vincent Wijaysingha or even a WP team with say,Pritam Singh as it's minority candidate...Look! Sylvia knows rather well that it was the Malay votes she lost in the same Aljunied GRC in 2006 GE.Hence,the importance of an ethnic minority candidate in a GRC.
So,why did she deliberately chose to lose in Nee Soon by fielding a minority candidate who does not even deserve to be WP cadre---in her very own party ; and by depriving of other worthy opposition parties who could have won the Nee Soon GRC by fielding quality Indian candidate ?
Note:I have edited this post after posting this.....
Sam! my posts are ending up here and there.