Editing Devan Nair (section)

===Involvement in PAP, DAP, and NTUC===
Nair was the only PAP member who contested in the [[1964 Malaysian general election]] and won [[Bangsar (federal constituency)|Bangsar]], near [[Kuala Lumpur]]. This contrasted with his 1955 election defeat. He stayed in Malaysia after the [[Independence of Singapore|separation]], forming the [[Democratic Action Party (Malaysia)|Democratic Action Party]] (DAP),<ref>{{cite news|last1=Woon|first1=Leven|title=www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/09/23/why-no-dap-founder-portrait-at-party-premises-by/|url=http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/09/23/why-no-dap-founder-portrait-at-party-premises-by/|access-date=5 December 2015|publisher=MToday News Sdn. Bhd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208150712/http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/09/23/why-no-dap-founder-portrait-at-party-premises-by/|archive-date=8 December 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> but returned to Singapore in 1969 to eventually lead the [[National Trades Union Congress]] (NTUC) once more, the labour union movement which he helped to established in 1961. Nair and [[P. P. Narayanan]] were advocates for the concerns of developing countries and voiced their concerns at the ICFTU as they saw economic and social policy documents that were biased towards industrialized nations. They wanted greater attention paid to extreme poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment of their countries. These proposals were accepted and later reflected in the work of [[International Confederation of Free Trade Unions|ICFTU]]'s Economic and Social Committee.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Munck|first=Ronaldo|title=Labour and globalisation: results and prospects|date=2004|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-817-1|location=Liverpool|pages=38|language=en|oclc=897033047}}</ref>