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Pritam Singh

Pritam Singh) in Singapore's Chinese-language media.}} (born 2 August 1976) is a Singaporean politician, author and lawyer who has served as the Secretary-General of the Workers' Party (WP) since 2018 and the Leader of the Opposition since 2020. A member of the Parliament of Singapore since 2011, he represents the Eunos division of Aljunied GRC. Singh is the first politician to be formally appointed as Leader of the Opposition in Singapore’s history. Under his leadership, the Workers' Party has maintained its position as the largest opposition party in Parliament, holding ten elected seats following the 2020 general election & 2025 general election.

Singh graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, winning the Straits Steamship Prize in 1999 for being the top undergraduate student in history and political science. He went on to pursue postgraduate studies at King's College London on a Chevening Scholarship, earning a Master of Arts degree in war studies in 2004. Singh subsequently returned to Singapore and enrolled in the Juris Doctor programme at the Singapore Management University, completing his legal studies and being called to the bar in 2011. In 2013, he joined the litigation and dispute resolution department of Donaldson & Burkinshaw, Singapore’s oldest law firm.

Singh entered politics with the Workers' Party and contested in the 2011 general election, where the party won Aljunied GRC, marking the first GRC victory for any opposition party. Singh has retained his seat in subsequent general elections. He succeeded Low Thia Khiang as Secretary-General of the Workers’ Party on 8 April 2018 as part of a leadership transition. From 2018 to 2020, Singh functioned as the ''de facto'' Leader of the Opposition. Following the party’s performance in the 2020 general election, where it won Hougang SMC and Sengkang GRC in addition to Aljunied GRC, Singh was formally appointed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as the ''de jure'' Leader of the Opposition, a role which grants him additional parliamentary responsibilities and resources. Provided by Wikipedia