Tag Archives: K SHANMUGAM

Min Shan tried to assure Singaporeans that sexual orientation do not influence policies. But why is 377A still around?

Recently, Minister Shanmugam said that action will be taken against a man who made insulting posts about Indians and Covid-19 on Twitter under the handle Sharon Liew @sharonliew86 some weeks ago. I run a Twitter account where I upload screenshots of racists / anti-religious posts made by various Hardwarezone members, a forum owned by Singapore Press Holdings. Will anyone care about these offensive tweets?

During the press conference by LFL, their advisor N Surendran spoke about LFL's legal suit against Mr K Shanmugam for issuing the correction direction. The suit also seeks a declaration that the Minister cannot take any action on LFL in Malaysia under POFMA.

A netizen disagreed with Min Shanmugam for saying that every minister's speech be taken as statutory legislation. He argued that if this is true, it defeats the purpose of The Hansard (an official record of speeches) and having Parliamentary sittings in the first place. What do you think?

I refer to the article “Parliament: Shanmugam, Sylvia Lim debate reason for Govt’s decision on counting of presidential terms” (Straits Times, Oct 4).

Workers' Party's Sylvia Lim, who finally got to speak on the EP, argued that the Government misled people into thinking that the decision to start counting from Wee Kim Wee was a result of the AGC's advice, when it was not.

There have been several questions about Pink Dot – what is the Government’s position on Pink Dot, why are there rules requiring the organisers to put up barricades and take other security measures, and some other related points.

Activist M Ravi has posted on Facebook stating that he will be taking out an application in the High Court against Minister of Home Affairs and Law, K Shanmugam, for alleged breach in his code of conduct as a law minister. He is demanding Mr Shanmugam resign from his ministerial post within 48 hours, failing which he would file his application in court.

Dr Lee Wei Ling, the younger sister of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, posted on Facebook yesterday to express her sadness over the alleged changes in her former friend, the Minister for Home Affairs and Law, K Shanmugam, after he declined to take her side in the Lee Family feud.

After yet another weekend of back and forth exchanges between the Lee family siblings, ministers from the People's Action Party's Cabinet have joined in the fray.