DAP's Chinese debate is larger than its party

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Very few people in this country would have the privilege of being handpicked by Onn Jaafar to run as an election candidate. And no one but one woman could say that she has the privilege of being the first female elected official in the country - only Devaki Krishnan.“Onn wanted me to contest because I was a teacher and was known in my community,” she said. Devaki was popular in Brickfields, the constituency (Bangsar) she would contest. Every election that returned her as a winner saw her given a “princess reception” where she would stand and wave on an unhooded motorcade.But what is most interesting about Devaki (photo above, wearing pink saree) is that she was the only person to survive Onn Jaafar’s multiracial experiment.Three years before Onn (standing, photo above) approached Devaki, he quietly harboured a dangerous idealism: a multiracial party. As president, he told Umno…