Dun Talk Cock Lah!: Chee Soon Juan's carefully manufactured cover story for ousting Chiam See Tong

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Chee Soon Juan's carefully manufactured cover story for ousting Chiam See Tong - Busted

Chee Soon Juan & SDP have tried desperately over the years to limit the fallout from Chee Soon Juan’s confrontation with Chiam See Tong.

They have tried to present an alternative interpretation of what really happened.

Pic: Fabrications About The PAP

And when that did not work, they have tried to imply that all is well between Chiam See Tong and Chee Soon Juan now and have attempted to reconcile for the sake of "opposition unity".

In an interview with Lianhe Zaobao on 28 Mar 2010 (English translation in Straits Times 29 Mar 2010), Mrs Chiam disputed SDP’s interpretation of the events.

"If he (Dr Chee) really wanted to keep Mr Chiam, he could have politely declined the position of secretary-general.

Or when the central executive was taking a vote on whether to take disciplinary action against Chiam, he could have opposed the dismissal."

She noted that Dr Chee wrote to the Speaker of Parliament to tell him of Mr Chiam's ouster, and asked for any further necessary action to be taken.*

* The Constitution says that an MP who loses membership of the party he represented in a general election automatically loses his seat in Parliament. In other words, Chee Soon Juan decided then that it was better for Singapore to lose an Opposition member in Parliament than for Chiam See Tong to remain in SDP.

(Article reproduced here: http://notmysdp.blogspot.sg/2010/03/mrs-chiam-chee-soon-juan-ousted-chiam.html)

In a recent interview, Mrs Chiam came forward to break SDP’s claims of Chee Soon Juan’s “selflessness” in seeking reconciliation with Chiam.