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For Members of Parliament (MPs), their main role is to act as a bridge between the community and the Government, to be the voice of their constituents, the people who elected them.
We take a look at several Singapore MPs that served their constituents until they were unable to do so due to certain medical conditions or even death, and what happened to the seats they vacated.
2010: Balaji Sadasivan, Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Ang Mo Kio GRC MP
PHOTO: The Straits TimesBalaji was a former neurosurgeon who was first elected MP for Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in 2001.
He was later diagnosed with colon cancer, undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from his colon in 2008. He died in September 2010. No by-election was held to fill his vacated seat.
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