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Chengara Veetil Devan Nair BBM (5 August 1923 – 6 December 2005), also known as C. V. Devan Nair, better known as Devan Nair, was a Singaporean politician and union leader who served as the third president of Singapore from 1981 until his resignation in 1985.
Jan 28, 2023 · C V Devan Nair, one of the leaders of the anti-colonial movement at the time, was a proponent of the Pulau Senang experiment. Having spent two stints as a political prisoner in the 1950s,...
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Nair was born in Malacca, Malaysia, the son of an Indian immigrant I.V.K. Nair, from Thalassery, Kerala. He and his family migrated to Singapore when he was 10 years old. When he was young, he received his education first at Rangoon Road Primary School and then at Victoria School, where he passed his Senior Cambridge examination in 1940.
Initially a member of the Communist Anti-British League, he joined Lee Kuan Yew's People's Action Party(PAP) in 1954. He was the only PAP member to win in the Malaysian general election, 1964, winning the Bangsar constituency, near Kuala Lumpur. He stayed in Malaysia after the Separation, forming the Democratic Action Party, but returned to Singapo...
On March 28, 1985, Nair resigned in unclear circumstances. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew stated in Parliament that Nair resigned to get treatment for alcoholism, a charge Nair hotly denied. According to Nair's counterclaim, he resigned under pressure when their political views came into conflict and Lee threatened to seek a motion in parliament to ou...
In 1995, Nair, with his family, migrated to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His wife, Avadai Dhanam, died on April 18, 2005. Nair died in the same year at around 2 pm, SST on December 6.
Nair is survived by his daughter, three sons, and five grandchildren. His eldest son, Janadas Devan, is a senior editor with the Straits Times. His second son, Janamitra Devan, is a Vice President of the World Bank Group, and his third son, Janaprakash Devan is a private entrepreneur in Canada. His only daughter, Vijaya Kumari Devan continues to re...
Nov 10, 2018 · These included Lim Chin Siong, Fong Swee Suan and Devan Nair, who were sent to island in 1953 and released only in 1959 when Singapore was granted self-government by the British and the PAP was returned to power.
Dec 6, 2005 · Devan Nair was a Malaysian-Singaporean politician of Kerala origin. He served as the third President of Singapore during the period, 23 October 1981 – 27 March 1985. He was the founder of Democratic Action Party along with Chen Man Hin in Malaysia. He remained a prominent trade union leader in Singapore and has led Singaporean trade union movement.
Apr 30, 2018 · In 1956, C.V. Devan Nair (extreme right) – who became Singapore’s third president in 1981 – along with (from left to right) Lim Chin Siong, Sydney Woodhull and Fong Swee Suan, his colleagues from the People’s Action Party (PAP), were detained on St John’s until the PAP was returned to power in 1959.
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Dec 7, 2005 · Nair was appointed political secretary to the Minister for Education, a position he relinquished after a year. He returned to teaching. In the same year, he was appointed chairman of the Prisons Inquiry Commission and launched the Adult Education Board, becoming its first chairman, serving from 1960 to 1964.8.
