D. R. Seenivasagam

Starting as a lawyer for his father's firm S Seenivasagam & Sons, DR became widely known for defending a young Chinese girl named Lee Meng who was arrested for alleged militant communist activities during the Emergency.

[4] Lee was captured by the British Malayan police force in Ipoh in July 1952 and tried for having a hand grenade in her possession.

He went on to win the redesignated Ipoh parliamentary seat in the 1959 and 1964 elections, comfortably defeating candidates from the Alliance and the Socialist Front in three-way contests.

Furthermore in the 1962 local council elections held in Perak, PPP won 57 per cent of the votes and 112 of 150 seats contested in the Kinta District.

[9] His contemporary Syed Husin Ali said that while DR was ostensibly a progressive politician, he was often seen as the voice of non-Malay perspectives.

His party repeated its success in the May, 1969 elections by winning four parliamentary seats and nearly gained control of the Perak state government.

[15] It comprises recreational fields, an artificial lake filled with fish, a nursery for potted plants and a children's traffic playground.