Tan Chuan-Jin

Tan Chuan-Jin

陈川仁
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Party	ex-PAP

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• 2017 to 2023 - Speaker of the Parliament
• 2011 to 2023 - MP for Marine Parade GRC
• 2014 to 2015 - Minister for Manpower
• 2015 to 2017 - Minister for Social and Family Development

Controversies

Affair with fellow MP while holding post of Speaker of Parliament

• Tan Chuan-Jin resigned 17 July 2023 after Lee Hsien Loong revealed that he, a married man and father of two, had been having an affair with fellow PAP MP Cheng Li Hui of Tampines GRC, who is single, since at least 2020
• despite being spoken to and counseled, most recently in February 2023, both he and Cheng Li Hui carried on with their "inappropriate relationship".
• both tendered their resignation on the same day

“Fxxking populist" comment as Speaker of Parliament

• called another Member of Parliament a “fxxking populist”, apparently made in response to a speech by Associate Professor Jamus Lim, Member of Parliament for Seng Kang GRC from the Workers’ Party.
• despite "unparliamentary" behaviour, was not censured

Old people collect cardboard as 'exercise'

• Jul 2015 - Youth Corp members highlighted the plight of some cardboard collectors in Singapore
  • as Minister of Social and Family Development, he commented that "Some prefer to earn extra monies, treat it as a form of exercise and activity rather than being cooped up at home."
  • roundly criticised by public for being out-of-touch and putting a spin on the lives of the elderly aunties and uncles who pick cardboards for a living and that his remarks were insensitive and amounted to whitewashing a sad situation.

Latest Update

• as of 2025, he refers to himself as " Leader", "Consultant", "Advisor", "Board Member", "Mentor", "Speaker" on his Linkedin page.

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  Tan Chuan-Jin's latest post dated Jan-Feb 2025

14th Parliament

MP  : Ang Wei Neng   ●   Baey Yam Keng   ●   Cheryl Chan Wei Ling   ●   Chan Chun Sing   ●   Chee Hong Tat   ●   Cheng Li Hui   ●   Edward Chia Bing Hui   ●   Chong Kee Hiong   ●   Desmond Choo   ●   Chua Kheng Wee Louis   ●   Eric Chua   ●   Darryl David   ●   Christopher de Souza   ●   Foo Mee Har   ●   Grace Fu Hai Yien   ●   Gan Kim Yong   ●   Gan Siow Huang   ●   Gan Thiam Poh   ●   Gerald Giam   ●   Derrick Goh   ●   He Ting Ru   ●   Heng Chee How   ●   Heng Swee Keat   ●   Shawn Huang Wei Zhong   ●   Indranee Rajah   ●   S Iswaran   ●   Janil Puthucheary   ●   Amy Khor Lean Suan   ●   Koh Poh Koon   ●   Kwek Hian Chuan Henry   ●   Desmond Lee   ●   Lee Hsien Loong   ●   Liang Eng Hwa   ●   Lim Biow Chuan   ●   Jamus Jerome Lim   ●   Sylvia Lim   ●   Lim Wee Kiak   ●   Low Yen Ling   ●   Mariam Jaafar   ●   Masagos Zulkifli Bin Masagos Mohamad   ●   Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman   ●   Mohd Fahmi Bin Aliman   ●   Muhamad Faisal Bin Abdul Manap   ●   Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim   ●   Murali Pillai   ●   Nadia Ahmad Samdin   ●   Ng Eng Hen   ●   Ng Ling Ling   ●   Louis Ng Kok Kwang   ●   Rachel Ong   ●   Ong Ye Kung   ●   Joan Pereira   ●   Leon Perera   ●   Denise Phua Lay Peng   ●   Poh Li San   ●   Pritam Singh   ●   Raeesah Khan   ●   Rahayu Mahzam   ●   Saktiandi Supaat   ●   Seah Kian Peng   ●   K Shanmugam   ●   Sharael Taha   ●   Sim Ann   ●   Sitoh Yih Pin   ●   Hany Soh   ●   Sun Xueling   ●   Alvin Tan   ●   Carrie Tan   ●   Tan Chuan-Jin   ●   Dennis Tan Lip Fong   ●   Desmond Tan   ●   Jessica Tan Soon Neo   ●   Tan Kiat How   ●   Tan See Leng   ●   Tan Wu Meng   ●   Patrick Tay Teck Guan   ●   Teo Chee Hean   ●   Josephine Teo   ●   Tharman Shanmugaratnam   ●   Tin Pei Ling   ●   Edwin Tong Chun Fai   ●   Vikram Nair   ●   Vivian Balakrishnan   ●   Wan Rizal   ●   Don Wee   ●   Lawrence Wong   ●   Xie Yao Quan   ●   Alex Yam Ziming   ●   Yeo Wan Ling   ●   Yip Hon Weng   ●   Melvin Yong Yik Chye   ●   Zaqy Mohamad   ●   Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim NCMP  : Leong Mun Wai   ●   Hazel Poa