PETALING JAYA: Tan Sri Devaki Krishnan, the country’s first woman to be elected into public office, has entered the Malaysia Book of Records – 70 years after achieving that feat.
Her bold leap in the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Election in 1952, a seat she retained in 1955, is seen as the breakthrough for political participation among women in a male-dominated field.
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