Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam (Tamil: ஜோசுவா பெஞ்சமின் ஜெயரத்தினம்; 5 January 1926 – 30 September 2008), better known as J. B. Jeyaretnam or by his initials...
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the elder son of J. B. Jeyaretnam, a prominent opposition politician in Singapore who founded the Reform Party in 2008. Jeyaretnam received a double...
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organisations". Jeyaretnam is the son of J. B. Jeyaretnam, who was a prominent opposition politician in Singapore. His older brother, Kenneth Jeyaretnam, is the...
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1960s and 1970s before its re-emergence in 1981, when party leader J. B. Jeyaretnam became the first opposition MP to be elected since Singapore's independence...
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election, he was the election agent for the party's secretary-general, J. B. Jeyaretnam, in his successful campaign to win Anson constituency. Low is well...
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Chiam See Tong (category EngvarB from September 2014)
Tan. He joined J. B. Jeyaretnam from the Workers' Party as one of only two opposition MPs in Singapore at the time. After Jeyaretnam was removed from...
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Lee Kuan Yew (section Action against J.B. Jeyaretnam)
opposition leader J. B. Jeyaretnam for comments he made at a Workers' Party rally in the 1988 general election. Lee alleged that Jeyaretnam's speech at the...
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Devan Nair (category EngvarB from November 2022)
1981 Anson by-election which was notably won by opposition leader J. B. Jeyaretnam of the Workers' Party (WP), the first time in Singapore since 1963...
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Reform Party (Singapore) (category EngvarB from July 2014)
every single member." It was founded by opposition veteran and lawyer J. B. Jeyaretnam, notable as the former Secretary-General of the Workers' Party of Singapore...
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order to become President of Singapore. The result was a victory for J. B. Jeyaretnam from the Workers' Party winning 51.93% of the vote and he was declared...
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accepted NCMP seats, including 2 different parties like Lee Siew-Choh, J. B. Jeyaretnam and Sylvia Lim from the Workers' Party and also Steve Chia from Singapore...
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This is a list of Singaporean political dissidents. J. B. Jeyaretnam Chee Soon Juan Chia Thye Poh Francis Seow Tan Wah Piow Amos Yee Alex Tan Roy Ngerng...
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eighties, opposition politicians began being elected in parliament with J. B. Jeyaretnam and Chiam See Tong, along with the creation of two schemes in the eighties:...
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Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss Christopher de Souza He Ting Ru Ho Peng Kee J. B. Jeyaretnam Desmond Lee Ellen Lee Lee Kuan Yew Lim Biow Chuan Sylvia Lim Lim Tean...
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made against the ruling party. Cases include former leader of the WP J. B. Jeyaretnam and leader of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) Chee Soon Juan,...
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of $1,500 remained unchanged. The Workers' Party secretary-general J. B. Jeyaretnam successfully retained the Anson constituency with an increased majority...
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1997 Singaporean general election (category EngvarB from July 2014)
Hong, who was standing on the WP ticket with its secretary-general J. B. Jeyaretnam for Cheng San GRC, faced criticism where Tang was accused by PAP of...
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Kwa Geok Choo (category EngvarB from December 2017)
Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss Christopher de Souza He Ting Ru Ho Peng Kee J. B. Jeyaretnam Desmond Lee Ellen Lee Lee Kuan Yew Lim Biow Chuan Sylvia Lim Lim Tean...
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Likewise, other prominent Indians include S. Dhanabalan, S. Jayakumar and J. B. Jeyaretnam (also known simply as 'JBJ'). Likewise, Tamil Muslims and Christians...
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1972 Singaporean general election (category EngvarB from July 2014)
its new secretary-general, also lawyer and former district judge, J. B. Jeyaretnam (who would later become the inaugural opposition Member of Parliament...
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Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss Christopher de Souza He Ting Ru Ho Peng Kee J. B. Jeyaretnam Desmond Lee Ellen Lee Lee Kuan Yew Lim Biow Chuan Sylvia Lim Lim Tean...
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have included the suspensions of David Marshall, Francis Seow, and J. B. Jeyaretnam, the lattermost suspension subsequently being reversed by the Privy...
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other MPs had vacated but neither by-elections are called, which were J. B. Jeyaretnam (Anson) and Minister Teh Cheang Wan (Geylang West). With the Singapore...
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at S$11.2 million) were to be frozen. Tang, who was represented by J. B. Jeyaretnam, unsuccessfully sought to disqualify Lai by claiming that Lai was "close"...
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Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss Christopher de Souza He Ting Ru Ho Peng Kee J. B. Jeyaretnam Desmond Lee Ellen Lee Lee Kuan Yew Lim Biow Chuan Sylvia Lim Lim Tean...
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October 1966 Barisan Sosialis Vacant 7 October 1966–22 December 1981 5 J. B. Jeyaretnam MP for Anson SMC (1926–2008) 22 December 1981 10 November 1986 Workers'...
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Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss Christopher de Souza He Ting Ru Ho Peng Kee J. B. Jeyaretnam Desmond Lee Ellen Lee Lee Kuan Yew Lim Biow Chuan Sylvia Lim Lim Tean...
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to bankrupt and imprison his political opponents, as in the case of J. B. Jeyaretnam and Chee Soon Juan. Francis Seow, the former solicitor-general of Singapore...
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United World College of South East Asia (category EngvarB from April 2018)
1956) – Malaysian politician Kenneth Jeyaretnam (born 1959) – Singaporean politician and son of J. B. Jeyaretnam Robert Milton (born 1960) – former chairman...
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Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss Christopher de Souza He Ting Ru Ho Peng Kee J. B. Jeyaretnam Desmond Lee Ellen Lee Lee Kuan Yew Lim Biow Chuan Sylvia Lim Lim Tean...
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