SDA's Desmond Lim to start online rally today

The Singapore Democratic Alliance's candidate for Punggol East, Mr Desmond Lim, will start his online rally at 6pm today.

Mr Lim told reporters after meeting residents at Kangkar LRT Station this morning that he'll start with two video clips on his Facebook page. 

Each clip will be between seven and 10 minutes long. 

Mr Lim said he'll produce at least 10 clips for his by-election campaign. 

The videos, which will be English, Malay and Chinese, will address national and local issues. 

Mr Lim will also try to push his online clips to smartphones - which will be a first for an election here. 

"What we are going to do the next one is we intend to download to our own smartphones. While we are moving around, we appeal to residents to turn on their Bluetooth, and we will send out to invite them to accept our offer to watch our online rally." 

Mr Lim said he's not sure how effective these methods will be, but stressed that they're good enough as long as they help him reach out to voters.