SINGAPORE: A former Workers’ Party (WP) cadre who is testifying against WP chief Pritam Singh on Monday (Oct 21) admitted to wanting Ms Raeesah Khan to lie more as the party did not have a “suitable plan” for coming clean.dc188
Mr Yudhishthra Nathan, who was in the party for six years before leaving in 2022, is the prosecution’s third witness in Singh’s trial.
Singh is accused of lying twice before the Committee of Privileges (COP) about what he wanted Ms Khan, a former WP Member of Parliament, to do regarding a lie she told in parliament.
Ms Khan told parliament on Aug 3, 2021, about accompanying a rape survivor to a police station, where the woman was questioned by police about her attire and the fact that she had been drinking.
At a meeting that Ms Khan had with Singh and WP chair Sylvia Lim on Oct 12, 2021, the party leaders told her to tell the truth, and she agreed to do so.
Ms Khan later admitted in parliament on Nov 1dc188, 2021, that her anecdote about the rape survivor was a lie, and that she herself was a survivor of sexual assault.
