Singapore PM siblings wade back into family feud
4 April 2018 3:33 AM IST
Singapore: A bitter feud that has rocked Singapore founding leader Lee Kuan Yew's family flared anew on Tuesday when his younger children criticised a ministerial committee's findings about a house at the centre of the row.
The century-old bungalow, which Lee Kuan Yew used to live in, has sparked a bitter feud between his children -- including current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong -- since the patriarch's death in 2015.
The senior Lee, widely credited with transforming Singapore into one of Asia's wealthiest countries, had stated in his will that he wanted the house torn down to avoid the emergence of a personality cult. But in a row that gripped the city-state last year, Lee Hsien Loong's siblings said their brother is attempting to block the house's demolition to capitalise on their father's legacy for his own political agenda.
A ministerial committee set up to decide on the future of the house released a report Monday, in which it laid out three options and said the fate of the property should be decided by a future government.
The options were: preserving the house as a national monument, demolition for redevelopment, or tearing it down but preserving the most historic portion.
But the siblings of current prime minister Lee said the alternatives to demolition proposed by the committee go against their father's wishes.
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