The Progress Singapore Party (PSP) and the People's Action Party (PAP) have accused each other of harassing volunteers during a walkabout in Bukit Gombak.
Both the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) and the People's Action Party (PAP) have alleged that the other party's volunteers harassed their own during a walkabout in Bukit Gombak. This comes after PSP member S Nallakaruppan gave an account of how he and other volunteers from his party were allegedly stalked and harassed throughout their walkabout in that area last Saturday (Jan 4). 'They (PAP volunteers) said it's 'their territory' and they have a right to follow us,' Nallakaruppan wrote.
'Whenever we managed to reach out to a resident, they quickly handed out their flyers as well. 'It was really unprofessional of them to do so but we did not want to have any confrontation and went about doing our job.' Nallakaruppan was a candidate for PSP in Nee Soon Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the 2020 elections.PSP Chairman Tan Cheng Bock also posted video footage, allegedly of the incident, where a man can be seen aggressively filming PSP volunteers using his phone, shoving the device in their face. Another man smiles as he takes wefies with a different PSP volunteer before using his phone to cover his own face.Chua Chu Kang GRC member of Parliament Low Yen Ling clarified her party's perspective on the matter on Wednesday (Jan 8) in a post on Facebook. After speaking with her volunteers, Low said in her post: 'It is clear that PSP has twisted the truth and has given an untrue picture of what happened.' According to her, at around 3pm last Saturday, a team of PAP volunteers began outreach efforts in Bukit Gombak and later encountered PSP volunteers also on a walkabout. When one PAP volunteer attempted to leave a lift to join his team, he was 'held back' by a PSP volunteer, who was quickly joined by another two who stepped into the lift
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