Prabakaran Parameswaran | |
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பிரபாகரன் பரமேஸ்வரன் | |
Chairman of the Special Committee of the Malaysian Indian Community Transformation Unit | |
Assumed office 7 February 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Anwar Ibrahim |
Minister | Aaron Ago Dagang (February–April 2024) |
Director-General | Raveendran Nair |
Preceded by | Ramanan Ramakrishnan |
Member of the Malaysian Parliament for Batu | |
Assumed office 9 May 2018 | |
Preceded by | Chua Tian Chang (PR–PKR) |
Majority | 24,438 (2018) 22,241 (2022) |
Division Chief of the People's Justice Party of Batu | |
Assumed office 17 July 2022 | |
President | Anwar Ibrahim |
Deputy | Mohd Hafiz Solkapeli |
Preceded by | Chua Tian Chang |
State Youth Chief of the People's Justice Party of Federal Territories | |
In office 20 February 2020 – 27 August 2022 | |
President | Anwar Ibrahim |
National Youth Chief | Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir (2020–2022) Adam Adli (2022) |
Federal Territories Chief | Zahir Hassan (2020–2022) Rafizi Ramli (2022) |
Preceded by | Na'im Brundage |
Succeeded by | Mohammad Azfar Aza Azhar |
Personal details | |
Born | Prabakaran a/l Parameswaran 8 February 1996 Batu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Citizenship | Malaysian |
Nationality | Malaysia |
Political party | People's Justice Party (PKR) (since 2018) Independent (2018) |
Other political affiliations | Pakatan Harapan (PH) (since 2018) |
Alma mater | Brickfields Asia College |
Occupation | Politician |
Profession | Student |
Prabakaran a/l Parameswaran (born 8 February 1996) is a Malaysian politician and law student who has served as Chairman of the Special Committee of the Malaysian Indian Community Transformation Unit (MITRA) since February 2024[1] and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Batu since May 2018. He is a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition, and was an independent before joining PKR. He has also served as the Division Chief of PKR of Batu since July 2022. He served as the Youth Chief of PKR of Federal Territories from February 2020 to August 2022. He is also presently the second youngest MP at the age of 28 after Sungai Petani MP Mohammed Taufiq Johari who is a month younger than him. He was the youngest MP from 2018 to 2022 before Mohammed Taufiq took over the title after his election as an MP. However, he is the youngest to be elected at the age of 22 years, 90 days in 2018 in the history of Malaysia.