Tan Cheng Bock Claimed Police Reports Made Against Raeesah Khan Had Been Timed to Coincide with Campaign Period

The Raeesah Khan saga has drawn a lot of attention.

Both positive

And negative

And now, there’s yet another person stepping into the saga and it’s a candidate from another opposition party.

Tan Cheng Bock Claimed Police Reports Made Against Raeesah Khan Had Been Timed to Coincide with Campaign Period

Raeesah Khan had two police reports lodged against her for making insensitive online comments that could “create enmity between two different groups”.

One was for a comment made in May 2020, and another for a comment made 2 years ago on the City Harvest Church saga back in 2018.

Speaking to reporters on 7 July 2020, Progress Singapore Party (PSP) leader Tan Cheng Bock said that the police reports seem to be timed to coincide with the campaign period.

He wondered why the reports were only lodged now, in the midst of the campaigning, and not when the comments happened.

“(The posts were made) so long ago they should’ve taken action (earlier). Why wait until now? That’s my question,” said Dr Tan.

“When it comes to politicking of this nature, let us (take the high road), then the world will look at us and regard Singapore as a mature country.”

He added that parties “should look at themselves” and gauge if they “have conducted their campaign in a gentlemanly way”.

“I don’t want to pick an event that happened two years ago. That shows that they have been waiting for this moment and this is what I call gutter politics.”

Raeesah Khan, the Workers’ Party candidate in the centre of the controversy has made a public apology in a press conference and said that she will fully cooperate with the police on the investigations.

When asked about it on 7 Jul 2020, Mr Pritam Singh from the Workers’ Party said that as much as he wants to, he and his candidate should not make any comments yet as a police investigation is ongoing.

It would be better to let the police finish their work instead of potentially affecting the investigation in any way with their comments, he said.

But there will be a time where a review of the incident will have to be done, he added.

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