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The smoke bomb is a double-edged sword. It has to be handled with care. It can hurt the thrower or help him.
Lee Hsien Yang has thrown one and we will have to wait and see if it hurts him/his political party. His highly-publicised visit to the Tiong Bahru market with veteran politician and secretary-general of the Progress Singapore Party (PSP), Tan Cheng Bock, on Wednesday had raised many people’s expectations sky high that Lee, the younger brother of Lee Hsien Loong and second son of Lee Kuan Yew, would fight GE2020.
That was not to be; it was to tell Singaporeans that Lee Hsien Yang had joined Dr Tan’s PSP.
Two days later, Dr Tan announced the final list of his party’s candidates and Lee’s name was not on it. I could almost hear a collective sigh of exasperation. Pff.
Worse still, it came just a day after the uncle of Opposition politics, Low Thia Khiang, and two of his Workers’ Party colleagues said they were out of the election race. That announcement left a glaring vacuum in Opposition politics which many thought Lee could fill.
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