Lim Kean Chye (Chinese: 林建材; pinyin: Lín Jiàncái; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Kiàn-chhâi; 22 December 1919 – 7 June 2023) was a Malaysian politician and lawyer.
MDU was Singapore's first political party[7] and consisted of English-educated Malaysians whose main objective was the assertion of the right to self-governance.
Upon returning to Malaya after completing his law degree from Cambridge University, Lim was contacted by Eu Chooi Yip and P V Sarma to join the Anti-British League (ABL), which he did.
[9] The Cambridge-educated lawyer was also part of the All-Malaya Council of Joint Action (AMCJA), which drafted the People’s Constitutional Proposals for Malaya in 1947 as the basis for independence.
[12] When Lim Yew Hock was appointed Singapore’s chief minister in 1958, he decided to return home.