Why PCF got apermit when WP was denied one

WP secretary-general and MP Low Thia Kiang (Hougang) asked whether the Senior Minister of State remembered how the PCF had “threatened” to withdraw kindergartens in opposition wards after the election of an opposition member in 1991. “Is that not political?” asked Mr Low.

Since the PCF is affiliated to the PAP, it is “quite natural” for its services to be withdrawn when a ward goes to the opposition, replied Assoc Prof Ho, but the services themselves “are surely unpolitical in nature”.

(TODAY newspaper, “Why PCF got apermit when WP was denied one” , 17 Sept 2008)