~ By Cheong Yaoming ~

With almost all the attention focused on Hougang SMC and the by-election, one might wonder if the elected MPs of the Workers' Party (WP) would be able to keep up with their day to day duties. Here is a look behind-the-scenes at Mr Chen Show Mao's Meet the People Session held two days after the first WP rally and just one day before the second WP rally.

The MPS went on with no extra fuss or glamour. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought this was just another ordinary MPS. As far as Mr Chen and the volunteers were concerned, it was just business as usual.

This article is published by The Online Citizen, 20 Maxwell Road, #09-17 Maxwell House, Singapore 069113.

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