Jalan Kayu SMC residents will be looked after as part of AMK extended family: SM Lee
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Senior Minister and Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Lee Hsien Loong greeting guests and performers during the first stop of Chingay 2025, held at Teck Ghee Square on Feb 15.
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SINGAPORE – The emergence of Jalan Kayu SMC, newly carved out from Ang Mo Kio GRC, is a “natural process” as the population in the area has grown over the years, Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a social media post on March 12.
The Electoral Boundaries Review Committee (EBRC) proposed carving out a piece of Ang Mo Kio GRC to form the new Jalan Kayu SMC, which includes the private estates along Jalan Kayu Road, the Seletar Aerospace Park, and a portion of the Housing Board homes in Fernvale.
This was to reduce the size of Ang Mo Kio GRC, which had more voters than any other constituency. According to the report released on March 11, the GRC will have a total of 190,800 electors.
“It is a natural process,” SM Lee wrote. “As Ang Mo Kio’s population has grown over the years, the GRC has hived off successive pieces to form separate SMCs, and the GRC’s own area has shrunk.”
He noted that today, Yio Chu Kang SMC and Kebun Baru SMC are part of the Ang Mo Kio extended family, and said he was looking forward to taking care of the residents of Jalan Kayu SMC as well.
“We all work together in the Ang Mo Kio Town Council to deliver a wider range of activities and more efficient services for residents,” he said. “I look forward to looking after the residents of Jalan Kayu SMC in the same way, too, after the forthcoming general elections.”
Meanwhile, fellow Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Ng Ling Ling thanked her residents, grassroots volunteers, branch activists, patrons and partners, who have written to express continued support since the EBRC announced changes to her ward.
In a social media post on March 11, she said the EBRC would have factored in new housing developments and population growth
She assured her current residents that she would continue to do her best to care for and attend to their needs. For new residents included in the SMC, she said she would also continue to get to know and engage them in the lead-up to the general election.
“We will wait for the party to finalise the best formation that will best serve residents, so we will wait for more updates as we go,” she wrote. “PAP team will always continue to look out for all our people.”
