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Bedok Central heavily spruced up since 2011 GE

SINGAPORE — Bedok Central has seen more changes in the past three years than it had in the previous 35, East Coast GRC Member of Parliament Lee Yi Shyan said yesterday.

SINGAPORE — Bedok Central has seen more changes in the past three years than it had in the previous 35, East Coast GRC Member of Parliament Lee Yi Shyan said yesterday.

These include the development of Bedok Mall, as well as the interchange that connects it and a new hawker centre in the area, said Mr Lee, when asked how the area had been spruced up since the 2011 General Election.

He said these were the outcome of plans laid six years back, and were due to the hard work and commitment by the East Coast GRC team, which has been working on the ground since the last GE.

“Someone was joking to me that because we have undergone so many changes in Bedok Town Centre, some of (the opposition candidates) who come here once every five years might get lost, so we might need to provide free tour guide services to show them around,” said Mr Lee, who is also a Senior Minister of State (Trade and Industry and National Development).

The Workers’ Party announced on July 26 its intention to contest in the GRC, having fielded a team there four years ago.

The WP took 45.17 per cent of the votes, which made its team the third-best loser in the GE and allowed Mr Gerald Giam to enter Parliament as a Non-Constituency MP.

Bedok Central falls just within East Coast GRC’s boundary with Marine Parade GRC. CHANNEL NEWSASIA

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