Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat was spotted at a walkabout with the People's Action Party (PAP) East Coast GRC team on the final day of campaigning (May 1). He shares with AsiaOne what residents think about the "East Coast Plan" and what's in store for him next.
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00:00Many residents said they thank you very much for the work that I've done.
00:07I said, well, the best present you can give me is to vote my team here.
00:14And that shows that the good work, the hard work that we've done
00:20is appreciated by our residents, is recognised by our residents.
00:24And you also give Prime Minister Lawrence Wong a strong mandate.
00:28Because Singapore is going through big storms and the world is going through big storms.
00:32The East Coast plan has made our life better.
00:34The other day I was at Bedok Moor just a few nights back
00:38and a delivery, a food delivery gentleman in his maybe late 40s,
00:47met me, saw me in the opposite direction.
00:51So when we were at the traffic junction, he actually ran back, you know,
00:55and he said, hey, thank you very much.
00:57East Coast has improved so much since the plan.
01:01So I'm very, very heartened that so many of our residents,
01:06that what we do is felt on the ground that people feel that things have changed,
01:12things have become better.
01:14And my hope is that we bring everyone together to work together.
01:19Because building Singapore is the work of every Singaporean.
01:23We make the right choices on who we elect as our leaders,
01:26who we elect to form the government.
01:28We put in our effort to pursue the courses that we believe in
01:32and we work together as one team.
01:34So what's next for you?
01:36What's next for me?
01:37Well, I'll take a break first and then I'll decide on how else I may be useful.
01:43If you have any suggestion, you're welcome to send to me.
01:47Thank you very much.