Prime Minister Lawrence Wong had accused the WP of launching “negative attacks” on Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong and the People's Action Party's Punggol GRC candidates. SINGAPORE: In a rebuttal of remarks by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, Workers' Party (WP) chief Pritam Singh said in a rally speech on Tuesday (Apr 29) that the People's Action Party's (PAP) "crippling" of opposition town councils over the years showed how it was the ruling party that had negative politics in its "DNA".