On My Mind
Workers' Party: A watchdog that is now under scrutiny
Its electoral inroads raised hopes for what a constructive opposition could do, but Raeesah Khan saga has dented some of those hopes
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Workers' Party leaders Pritam Singh and Low Thia Khiang engaging residents at Kovan Hougang Market and Food Centre in July 2020
ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
In the 1980s, when Mr Low Thia Khiang started helping out at the Workers' Party (WP), his wife's boss issued her a dire warning.
Mr Low was "dead in the water", he said, using the Chinese phrase si bu de fan sheng. It was a reflection of Singapore's political climate then, and how the opposition was viewed.
