03-31-2021, 11:18 AM
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PETALING JAYA: It may be difficult for many to imagine that a brilliant lawyer who became the country’s youngest MP in 1959 would die without a cent to his name, but this was the case for Karam Singh Veriah.
He could have amassed a fortune as a lawyer in a young nation but chose instead to live a life fighting for the oppressed, regardless of race or nationality.
For this, he was made an enemy of the state, incarcerated in Malaysia and thrown out of India after he had gone there to settle down.
“He was truly the rakyat’s man, the people’s champion,” historian Ranjit Singh Malhi told FMT.
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