Tan Sri Dr Devaki Krishnan is the first woman to contest in the country's first open public election - the Kuala Lumpur Municipal elections and was elected. She is thus also the first Malaysian Indian woman in the country to be elected to this office in 1952. She is currently a life member of the Malaysian Indian Congress. Though she represents the MIC, she is actually of Ceylonese or Sri Lankan Tamil descent.
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- Tan Sri Dr Devaki Krishnan is the first woman to contest in the country's first open public election - the Kuala Lumpur Municipal elections and was elected. She is thus also the first Malaysian Indian woman in the country to be elected to this office in 1952. She is currently a life member of the Malaysian Indian Congress. Though she represents the MIC, she is actually of Ceylonese or Sri Lankan Tamil descent. In Malaysia, Ceylonese are sometimes grouped together under Indians in the national census.
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- Tan Sri Dr Devaki Krishnan is the first woman to contest in the country's first open public election - the Kuala Lumpur Municipal elections and was elected. She is thus also the first Malaysian Indian woman in the country to be elected to this office in 1952. She is currently a life member of the Malaysian Indian Congress. Though she represents the MIC, she is actually of Ceylonese or Sri Lankan Tamil descent.
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