Bukit Batok by-election: PAP candidate Murali to focus on elderly and needy residents
by Dhany Osman
The PAP’s candidate for the Bukit Batok by-election, Murali Pillai, says his focus is on helping the area’s needy families and elderly folk.
At a doorstop interview in Bukit Batok on Sunday morning (3 April), the 48-year-old lawyer said the number of elderly living alone in the area had been on the rise.
To help these people, he said he hoped to bring over a “panic button installation fund” that he had first started in Paya Lebar to Bukit Batok residents. This button would help elderly folk living alone to alert their neighbors or VWOs, should something happen to them.
He said that house visits would also be a “regular feature” should he be elected. While on his walkabout, he said he encountered residents asking about when the Home Improvement Programme would be coming to the blocks. This was another issue he hoped to pursue if elected.
Murali will be up against the Singapore Democratic Party’s Chee Soon Juan in the upcoming Bukit Batok by-election. Chee and his team were also spotted on a walkabout in the area on Sunday morning.
When asked about his chances in the by-election, Murali said he hoped that it would be a matter of “presenting my credentials, my experience and my plans to Bukit Batok residents”, after which he would “leave it in their good hands”.
