Shanmukham Chetty joined the Justice Party and became a Councillor in the Coimbatore municipality in 1917 . Soon afterwards , he was elected Vice-Chairman of the Coimbatore Municipality . Chetty is credited with having brought about some reforms in the municipal administration . In 1920 , Shanmukham Chetty participated in the Madras Presidency legislative council elections and was elected to the Madras Legislative Council . He served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1920 to 1922 , when he resigned . He joined the Swaraj Party and was , in 1924 , elected to the Central Legislative Assembly , the newly inaugurated lower house of the Imperial Legislative Council of India . Chetty represented Indian employers at the International Labour Conference in Geneva in 1928 , 1929 and 1932 . He was the Indian delegate at the Imperial Economic Conference held at Ottawa in 1932
Imperial Economic Conference
British Empire Economic Conference
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty