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SINGAPORE - The fight for Sengkang GRC will be an uphill battle given the incumbent advantage that the WP has, but the PAP team there is hopeful it will put up a “good fight”, said former senior minister of state Lam Pin Min.

“As a party, we understand that every election will be a tough fight, not only just in Sengkang alone. In every GRC, every SMC will be a tough fight, and we do not want to take anything for granted,” he told media on April 20, before a walkabout with PAP’s Sengkang team at Kopitiam Square in Compassvale.

Dr Lam, the only candidate retained from PAP’s Sengkang 2020 team, was responding to WP chief Pritam Singh’s remark a day earlier that the Opposition expects “a very difficult fight” in Sengkang, citing the narrow margin of its 2020 victory over the ruling party.

In 2020, the WP team of new faces took 52.12 per cent of the vote, beating the PAP’s slate made up of then Cabinet Minister Ng Chee Meng, Dr Lam, then Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs and Health Amrin Amin and lawyer Raymond Lye.

Dr Lam, who has walked all of Sengkang’s coffee shops following his previous loss, was with his team who will be making their political debut in the upcoming election. They are Ms Theodora Lai, 39, co-founder of deep tech venture capital firm Moringa Ventures; Associate Professor Elmie Nekmat, 43, who teaches communications and new media at the National University of Singapore; and Mrs Bernadette Giam, 38, the director of Creative Eateries, a local food and beverage company.

The 56-year-old said the team will face more challenges in the re-match against WP’s 2025 line-up featuring the Sengkang MPs Louis Chua, Ms He Ting Ru, Associate Professor Jamus Lim and Aljunied-Hougang Town Council senior property manager Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Malik.

He said: “We are not the incumbent. We do not have the resources of the town council, and we find that as a challenger, we’re always facing more challenges compared to somebody who is an incumbent in a GRC.”

Nevertheless, the ophthalmologist said he was very happy to know that the team from WP will be contesting again.

He said: “We have seen how they have served the residents in Sengkang, but we are also under no delusion that it’s going to be very easy for us.

“We will do our best to ...