Two women confronted Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam at his Meet-the-People Session on March 12, causing a commotion outside his Chong Pang branch office that was caught on camera.
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The women belong to an activist group called Monday of Palestine Solidarity, said the People’s Action Party in a post on its Petir website. The group has visited at least 10 Meet-the-People Sessions, including National Development Minister Desmond Lee’s in West Coast GRC and Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo’s in Jalan Besar GRC.“I understand that people may feel strongly about some issues. But is not a protest venue.
She asks for proof that MPs cannot attend to non-residents at Meet-the-People Sessions, to which he responds that he will speak with them after attending to his own residents, if they do not mind waiting. Added Mr Shanmugam: “The antagonistic way in which they spoke, behaved, interrupted, threw accusations of lying, suggested that they wanted to make a scene, get some material to put out, rather than engage in a genuine discussion,” he noted.
Reiterating that the sessions are for residents, Mr Shanmugam said he informed the women that he would be happy to discuss Pofma with them, if there is time. In the video, when Mr Shanmugam turns to go back into the branch office, the two women, joined by a man, shout at him and call him a “coward”.
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