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Sinnathamby-Rajaratnam_Wen-Ting-Rachel-Jee-and-Pei-Shan

Our favourite leader is Sinnathamby Rajaratnam . He is a journalist and he found the PAP together with Lee Kuan Yew, Dr Goh Keng Swee and other leaders. He devoted much of his adult life to public service, and helped shape the mentality of Singaporeans on contemporary issues.

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Sinnathamby-Rajaratnam_Wen-Ting-Rachel-Jee-and-Pei-Shan

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  1. Our favourite leader is Sinnathamby Rajaratnam. He is a journalist and he found the PAP together with Lee Kuan Yew, DrGohKengSwee and other leaders. He devoted much of his adult life to public service, and helped shape the mentality of Singaporeans on contemporary issues.

  2. During his years in parliament, he served as Minister for Culture (1959), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1965–1980), Minister for Labour (1968–1971), Deputy Prime Minister (1980–1985) and was later appointed as Senior Minister until his retirement in 1988. Rajaratnam is remembered for writing the Singapore National Pledge in 1966.

  3. Rajaratnam also disagreed with then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on the policy of giving incentives to women who are college graduates and have more children, as Rajaratnam felt that the policy was unfair. Despite their differences in opinion on certain issues, Rajaratnam was loyal to Lee Kuan Yew and he remained as a member of the "core team" of Lee Kuan Yew's government that include Goh KengSwee, Hon Sui Sen and Lim Kim San, and they dominated Singapore political scene from 1959 to mid-1980s.

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