SINGAPORE, Aug 24 — As a university student at the London School of Economics in the 1970s, Tharman Shanmugaratnam was known to be an activist who was friends with Communist...
SINGAPORE, Aug 24 — As a university student at the London School of Economics in the 1970s, Tharman Shanmugaratnam was known to be an activist who was friends with Communist sympathisers agitating for social change back home in Singapore.“There’s an old Bob Dylan song that says, ‘But I was older then, I’m much younger now’ when he was reflecting about his youth,” he said.
The former Senior Minister turned presidential candidate was speaking to Mediacorp reporters in a recent interview at Greenology, a company that does urban greening located in Changi Village. “It’s personal engagement with groups of volunteers that achieves policymaking can’t achieve,” he said. “So I didn’t grow up with an elite lifestyle. But I’m not saying this defensively because we are who we are.”And who Tharman is, is a very popular politician — so popular in fact that he once even had to publicly declare that he was not interested to become Prime Minister, after an online poll in 2016 found him to be the favourite choice for Singapore’s next head of Government.
“What the President needs to understand is the complexities of how we have to respond to the crises that will come, and the complexities of responding to the longer-term challenges that Singapore faces, particularly climate change,” he said.
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