Devan Nair

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Chengara Veetil Devan Nair (5 August 1923 – 6 December 2005) was a Singaporean union leader and politician who served as the third president of Singapore from 1981 until his resignation in 1985. Politically active in both Malaysia and Singapore, Nair was a communist in his youth, having been affiliated with the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). He held strong anti-colonial views and advocated for Singapore's self-determination at a time when it was still a British colony, which led to his detention by the British authorities in 1951. In 1954, he joined the People's Action Party (PAP). He was detained once more following the Chinese middle school student riots in 1956 and remained in custody until the PAP's landslide victory in the 1959 general election, after which he was released. In 1961, he founded the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and served as its Secretary-General until 1965. During his parliamentary career, Nair was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Malaysian constituency...

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