Indranee to table ministerial statement on conduct of Sylvia Lim, Faisal Manap

Leader of the House Indranee Rajah will deliver a ministerial statement in Parliament on 7 July on the conduct of Workers' Party (WP) leaders Sylvia Lim and Faisal Manap, according to the order paper published on 6 July.

The statement will be a determination on findings from the Committee of Privileges (COP) relating to former Sengkang GRC MP Raeesah Khan's lies to Parliament in 2021.

It follows a motion Indranee filed in January 2026, asking the House to note that the High Court's judgment and the COP's findings have implications for Lim and Faisal Manap, to be considered separately from WP chief Pritam Singh's case.

Singh was convicted of lying to the COP. The High Court upheld his convictions on 4 December 2025 after he appealed.

Lim is MP for Aljunied GRC and WP's chairwoman. Faisal Manap sits on the WP's Central Executive Committee (CEC) but is not an MP.

On 14 January 2026, the House voted in favour of the motion, though all 11 WP MPs present registered their dissent. Non-Constituency MP Eileen Chong was absent.

During that debate, in which the House found Singh unsuitable to continue as Leader of the Opposition (LO), Lim disputed that she and Faisal Manap were implicated, saying the pair had not been given an opportunity to defend themselves in court.

Indranee responded that although Lim was not involved in the court proceedings, the COP had found that she and Faisal Manap lied about what happened at a meeting with Khan, consistent with the court's findings.

The following day, 15 January 2026, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong removed Singh from the LO position with immediate effect, saying the decision was necessary to uphold the rule of law and the dignity and integrity of Parliament.

Wong said Singh's convictions, taken together with Parliament's view of his unsuitability, made it untenable for him to remain LO. He invited WP to nominate another elected MP, not implicated in the COP's findings, to take on the role.

The WP said it had received Wong's letter and would deliberate through its internal processes. The party subsequently indicated it would not put forward another name for the LO position.

Twenty-five WP cadre members later petitioned for a Special Cadre Members' Conference (Special CMC) on whether Singh should continue as secretary-general. The conference was held on 28 June 2026, chaired by MP Gerald Giam.

Singh gave cadres a full account of the High Court judgment and answered their questions before a secret ballot was held. Cadres voted to retain him, a result Giam described as a supermajority, with some reports citing roughly 79 per cent support among the 107 cadres present.

Singh was then re-elected unopposed as secretary-general at the WP's Ordinary Cadre Members' Conference held the same day, with Lim re-elected as party chair. Lim and Faisal Manap were both returned to the CEC in that election, alongside a new 12-member line-up.

Singh has said the LO decision rests with the Prime Minister, not the party, and that he believes Wong has already made his decision. The post has remained vacant since January.

With the 7 July sitting, Parliament is set to address the separate question of Lim and Faisal Manap's conduct that Indranee had said in January would follow "before too long".