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There has been a confusing set of messages coming out from WP on the salary issue. It also differs materially from the WP comments from the release of the report from the Committee.
What Vikram was doing is the classic act of giving GG enough rope to hang himself. Vikram must have sensed the confusion and decided to ask some exploratory questions. I am not blaming GG but I suspect that WP must have got caught by prior proposal raised before GE2011 and have been modifying it since GG and CSM came on board.
These are the occasional hazards of politics in parliament and people like GG and CSM will learn from it. I recall JBJ getting hung by WKS of all people over teleco charges in a similar manner. WKS sensed that JBj had not done his homework and was not sure what the actual line should be and began questioning him.
Everybody seems to get smoked by PAP. It was PAP who shifted position first by appointing the salary review committee, not WP or any other opposition party. They have to shift position accordingly too. Why don't you ask first, why PAP shifted position and initiated the review?