Jeannette Florina Chong-Aruldoss Yean Yoong is a Singaporean lawyer and politician.
14 Facts About Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss
Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss started her political career by joining the Reform Party in 2009.
Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss was educated at CHIJ Katong Convent before she read law at the University of Kent at Canterbury and completed a Bachelor of Laws in 1985.
Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss entered politics in 2009 and eventually became a member of the Reform Party's central executive committee.
Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss left the Reform Party on 18 February 2011 due to "differences of opinion".
In 2011, Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss joined the National Solidarity Party, and stood for election as a NSP candidate during the general election that year in Mountbatten SMC.
On 27 October 2013, Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss was elected the secretary-general of the NSP following the resignation of her predecessor, Hazel Poa.
In January 2015, Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss challenged Sebastian Teo for the position of president of the NSP but was voted out of the NSP's central executive committee.
Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss eventually left the NSP and joined the Singapore People's Party in April 2015.
In October 2019, Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss was seen accompanying Workers' Party members on a walkabout in the Eunos Crescent area of Marine Parade GRC.
In 2021, Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss wrote an article on Medium encouraging Singaporeans to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
On 8 August 2017, Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss sustained a bruised hip after she was assaulted by fellow lawyer and politician M Ravi at The Adelphi.
Court documents revealed that Ravi had gone to The Adelphi and demanded to be allowed inside Eugene Thuraisingam's law firm, where Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss was working then.
Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss had stopped her abruptly and began questioning her aggressively.