Harpreet Singh Nehal

Nov 7, 2024 | jom.media | Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Philip B. Holden |Harpreet Singh Nehal |Thiyaghessan Poongundranar

Whenever I speak to my dad, I inevitably get drawn into long conversations on Singapore politics. Like many Singaporeans his age, my dad loves to complain about how today’s 4G leaders are not as competent as Lee Kuan Yew (henceforth LKY) and his first-generation cabinet. One day, I finally bit the bullet. “How exactly are our current leaders different?” I asked my dad. In a trice, he whipped out his phone to play a YouTube video clearly bookmarked in anticipation of this moment.

Oct 24, 2024 | jom.media | Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Philip B. Holden |Harpreet Singh Nehal |Pritam Singh’s likeability

Lee Hsien Loong, Lawrence Wong, Pritam Singh, and Ong Ye Kung are the Singaporean politicians who should be happiest with the results from Jom’s first voter sentiment survey. The senior minister, prime minister, leader of the opposition, and minister for health, respectively, are universally liked across age and racial groups.

Sep 12, 2024 | jom.media | Philip B. Holden |Harpreet Singh Nehal |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Brian Charles

Lee Kuan Yew was a 73-year-old senior minister when 30-year-old Harpreet Singh Nehal publicly challenged him. The backdrop, to that 1996 televised forum on the Singapore Dream, was that political leaders had become increasingly concerned about the perceived lack of grit amongst the “post-independence generation”: those, like Harpreet, born after 1965.

May 31, 2024 | jom.media | Harpreet Singh Nehal

Dear reader, In “Singapore This Week”, we look at Pink Dot’s plea to Lawrence Wong; the sad story of MD Sharif Uddin, a Bangladeshi worker and writer forced to leave town; Siddharth Jagadeesh, Singapore’s youngest chess grandmaster; the graduating seniors from Yale-NUS College who expressed solidarity with Palestinians; the “green” partnership between Nanyang Technological University, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, the National Research Foundation, and energy giant...

May 31, 2024 | jom.media | Harpreet Singh Nehal |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Philip B. Holden |Brian Charles

Singapore’s next general election (GE) is due by November 2025. Given the recent leadership handover by former Prime Minister (PM) Lee Hsien Loong to new PM Lawrence Wong, there is considerable speculation that the government may call it sometime this year.