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(๐—ง๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜, ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—บ๐˜† ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐— ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—บ)

My Facebook post on Monday evening was intended to raise certain points that were weighing on my mind after I had deliberated on Minister Shanmugam’s response to my Parliamentary Question earlier that day.

As I confirmed in Parliament, it was not my intent to cast aspersions on the Ministers nor act in an unparliamentary manner. The points were raised solely in the public interest.

I have since considered the matter further following yesterdayโ€™s Parliamentary proceedings and have decided to withdraw those statements by deleting them from the Facebook post which I made on Monday evening. This should address the concerns raised.

I have not considered it appropriate to delete the entire post as the Minister has asked given that my post made numerous other points which I consider to be valid and to which no objection appears to have been made. It would, therefore be a disproportionate response to delete the entire post.

๐—œ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜, ๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐— ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ž๐—ข๐—  ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฑ, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—œ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—ด๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐˜๐˜†.

Let me reiterate that it was never my intention to cast aspersions on the Ministers.

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