Dato' Sri Devamany s/o. S. Krishnasamy ( ta, தேவமணி கிருஷ்ணசாமி, Tēvamaṇi kiruṣṇacāmi; born 10 September 1958), also known as S. K. Devamany, is a

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politician. He is the incumbent Deputy President of the

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(MIC), a major component party of the

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(BN) coalition. He was a Senator in

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; the

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of the

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and served as the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (EPU) (2016-2018) in previous government. Previously he was also the Perak State Legislative Assembly Speaker from 28 June 2013 to 30 June 2016. He formerly served as Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department under the

government while being member of the

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of Malaysia for the

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constituency in

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for two terms from 21 March 2004 to 5 May 2013.

Personal life

Devamany was born on 10 September 1957 in Semanggol, Perak and received his early education at King Edward VII School in Taiping. In 1978, he qualified as a teacher from the Special Education Teachers' Institute in

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. He then furthered his studies and graduated with a degree in Malay Literature from

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in 1982. Dewamany is married to Saraswathy Nallaiah and the couple has three daughters.

Political career

Devamany was picked to be the treasurer general of

(MIC) replacing Tan Sri Mahalingam in 2008. He becomes MIC current Deputy President after winning the party re-election in 2015 when ROS nullified the 1 December 2013 party's earlier election in which he failed to retain the Vice-President position he previously held since 2009. Devamany was first elected to the

in the 2004 election for the seat of

, Pahang. He held his seat in the

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despite widespread losses by the MIC, leaving him as one of only three MIC members of the Dewan Rakyat. After the 2008 election, Devamany was appointed a Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department. For the

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, Devamany was selected to contest the

Sungai Siput Sungai Siput (U) ( Jawi: سوڠاي سيڤوت; Tamil: சுங்கை சீப்புட்) (English: Snail River) is a town and mukim in Kuala Kangsar District, Perak, Malaysia, covering 155.141 hectares, 61.5% of the total area of Kua ...

, Perak parliamentary constituency. However, he was defeated by incumbent Michael Jeyakumar from Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) who had contested under the tickets of

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(PKR). On 28 June 2013, he was voted in as the new Perak State Legislative Assembly Speaker, receiving 31 votes to his opponent's 28. He served as the Perak State Legislative Assembly Speaker from June 2013 to June 2016. Devamany was appointed as

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and once again as the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (EPU) in the federal government on 27 June 2016.

Election results

References

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