[Editor's note: Edits were made to the article to state that Ng is in fact the third potential PAP candidate from Chong Pang.]

It appears that Singaporean men who are driven are not immune to Foreign Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam's deep set, soulful eyes.

After five years of courtship at Chong Pang, Minister Shanmugam finally won the heart of animal rights activist and founder of the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society Singapore (ACRES) Louis Ng.

Ng announced on Facebook on Oct. 20, 2014, that he has joined the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP).

Ng is the third potential PAP candidate from Minister Shanmugam's Chong Pang branch.

A Straits Times article last year reported that the executive director of food supply company Foodtraco Supplies Henry Kwek, 38, is the Chong Pang branch secretary - a senior grassroots leader position typically held by older PAP members with more than a few decades of experience.

A Channel NewsAsia article in April highlighted 35-year-old lawyer Amrin Amin, who was spotted at a ground-breaking ceremony in Woodlands.  Amrin was a member of the Chong Pang  Citizens' Consultative Committee since 2004 and a legislative assistant to Minister Shanmugam.

The best PAP salesman ever? Minister Shanmugam appears poised to win the award again.

Let's look at Minister Shanmugam's harvest in the last General Election:

According to the Straits Times ("Getting the best talent for the team"), Apr.17, 2011:

"[T]hree of the eight private sector candidates had been recommended to the PAP by him: lawyers Edwin Tong and Vikram Nair, and commodities trader Ong Teng Koon". 

His haul in the previous GEs?

The same Straits Times report noted that Minister Shanmugam had recruited four other PAP MPs, including Ang Mo Kio MP Yeo Guat Kwang and Minister of State Teo Ser Luck.

Who is next?

How about a fellow animal-lover who earns her street-cred in the last election by disagreeing with the establishment? She is currently a free-agent after resigning from the National Solidarity Party.

Time to make your move, Minister.

Top photo from K Shanmugam Sc Facebook.

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