The All Ceylon Malay Political Union (''Persekutuan Politics Melayu Lankapuri'') was a

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Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

(present-day Sri Lanka). The party was founded in 1944 as the All Ceylon Malay Congress. The party sought to promote the rights of the

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minority and gain parliamentary representation for the community.Ferguson, Alastair MacKenzie.
Ferguson's Ceylon Directory, Vol. 110
'. Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited, 1968. p. 65 The party was led by M.P. Drahaman. During the British rule, the party argued that Malay's should be given a separate (from the

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) parliamentary representation. The party supported the independence struggle in

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. The party leader M.P. Drahaman was appointed as Member of Parliament in 1956 (serving until 1959) and again in 1960. The All Ceylon Malay Political Union published a quarterly journal called ''Khabar Khabaran''.
Koleksi Ismail Hussein
'. 1989. p. 63

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