Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berhormat Dato' |
Office: | Deputy Minister of Entrepreneur and Cooperatives Development |
Term Start: | 12 December 2023 |
Primeminister: | Anwar Ibrahim |
Minister: | Ewon Benedick |
Predecessor: | Saraswathy Kandasami |
Constituency: | Sungai Buloh |
Office3: | Chairman of the Special Committee of the Malaysian Indian Community Transformation Unit |
Term Start3: | 18 April 2023 |
Term End3: | 7 February 2024 |
Successor3: | Prabakaran Parameswaran |
Primeminister3: | Anwar Ibrahim |
Minister3: | Armizan Mohd Ali Aaron Ago Dagang |
1Blankname3: | Director-General |
Constituency Mp4: | Sungai Buloh |
Parliament4: | Malaysian |
Term Start4: | 19 November 2022 |
Predecessor4: | Sivarasa Rasiah (PH–PKR) |
Majority4: | 2,693 (2022) |
Birth Date: | 11 February 1981 |
Party: | Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) People's Justice Party (PKR) |
Otherparty: | Barisan Nasional (BN) Pakatan Harapan (PH) |
Relations: | Devaki Krishnan (grandmother) |
Occupation: | Politician |
Mawards: | is not set --> |
Dato' Ramanan Ramakrishnan is a Malaysian politician who has served as Deputy Minister of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Minister Ewon Benedick since December 2023,[1] and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sungai Buloh since November 2022.[2] He served as the Chairman of the Special Committee of the Malaysian Indian Community Transformation Unit (MITRA) from April 2023[3] to February 2024.[4] He is a member and Deputy Information Chief of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the PH coalition and was a member of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He was also the eldest grandson of the late Devaki Krishnan, the first woman elected to public office in the Malaysian history.[5] [6]
Under Ramanan's leadership, MITRA disbursed over RM62 million to the Malaysian Indian community.[7] MITRA received a rating of "low risk" by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.[8]
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||
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2022 | P107 Sungai Buloh | (PKR) | 50,943 | 39.30% | Khairy Jamaluddin (UMNO) | 48,250 | 37.22% | 130,846 | 2,693 | 82.00% | |||
bgcolor= | Mohd Ghazali Md Hamin (PAS) | 29,060 | 22.42% | ||||||||||
bgcolor= | Mohd Akmal Mohd Yusoff (PEJUANG) | 829 | 0.64% | ||||||||||
bgcolor= | Ahmad Zuhri Faisal (PRM) | 279 | 0.22% | ||||||||||
Syed Razak Alsagoff (IND) | 165 | 0.13% | |||||||||||
Nurhaslinda Basri (IND) | 113 | 0.09% |