Ramanan Ramakrishnan
Ramanan Ramakrishnan | |
|---|---|
| ரமணன் ராமகிருஷ்ணன் | |
Ramanan Ramakrishnan in 2024 | |
| Minister of Human Resources | |
| Assumed office 17 December 2025 | |
| Monarch | Ibrahim Iskandar |
| Prime Minister | Anwar Ibrahim |
| Deputy | Khairul Firdaus Akbar Khan |
| Preceded by | Steven Sim Chee Keong |
| Constituency | Sungai Buloh |
| Deputy Minister of Entrepreneur and Cooperatives Development | |
| In office 12 December 2023 – 17 December 2025 | |
| Monarchs | Abdullah (2023–2024) Ibrahim Iskandar (2024–2025) |
| Prime Minister | Anwar Ibrahim |
| Minister | Ewon Benedick |
| Preceded by | Saraswathy Kandasami |
| Succeeded by | Mohamad Alamin |
| Constituency | Sungai Buloh |
| Chairman of the Special Committee of the Malaysian Indian Community Transformation Unit | |
| In office 18 April 2023 – 7 February 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Anwar Ibrahim |
| Minister | Armizan Mohd Ali (April–December 2023) Aaron Ago Dagang (December 2023–2024) |
| Director-General | Raveendran Nair |
| Succeeded by | Prabakaran Parameswaran |
| Member of the Malaysian Parliament for Sungai Buloh | |
| Assumed office 19 November 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Sivarasa Rasiah (PH–PKR) |
| Majority | 2,693 (2022) |
| Vice President of the People's Justice Party | |
| Assumed office 25 May 2025 Serving with | |
| President | Anwar Ibrahim |
| Preceded by | Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 February 1981 |
| Party | Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) (–2014) People's Justice Party (PKR) (since 2020) |
| Other political affiliations | Barisan Nasional (BN) (–2014) Pakatan Harapan (PH) (since 2020) |
| Relations | Devaki Krishnan (grandmother) |
| Alma mater | Queensland University of Technology |
| Occupation | Politician |
Ramanan Ramakrishnan (Tamil: ரமணன் ராமகிருஷ்ணன்; born 11 February 1981) is a Malaysian politician of Indian descent. He has served as the Minister of Human Resources as part of the Anwar Ibrahim cabinet since December 2025. He became the first Malaysian of Tamil origin to hold a full ministerial portfolio after a hiatus of two years. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Sungai Buloh since November 2022, and is also a Vice President of People's Justice Party, having secured the second-highest number of votes in the 2025 party election.
Early life
Born Ramanan s/o Ramakrishnan, he was the eldest grandson of Devaki Krishnan, the first woman elected to public office in Malaysia.[1][2]
Election results
| Year | Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | P107 Sungai Buloh | Ramanan Ramakrishnan (PKR) | 50,943 | 39.30% | Khairy Jamaluddin (UMNO) | 48,250 | 37.22% | 130,846 | 2,693 | 82.00% | ||
| Mohd Ghazali Md Hamin (PAS) | 29,060 | 22.42% | ||||||||||
| Mohd Akmal Mohd Yusoff (PEJUANG) | 829 | 0.64% | ||||||||||
| Ahmad Zuhri Faisal (PRM) | 279 | 0.22% | ||||||||||
| Syed Razak Alsagoff (IND) | 165 | 0.13% | ||||||||||
| Nurhaslinda Basri (IND) | 113 | 0.09% | ||||||||||
Honours
Honours of Malaysia
- Malaysia
- Recipient of the 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (2024)
- Kelantan
- Justice of the Peace (JP) (2025)
- Pahang
- Knight Grand Companion of the Order of Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang (SSAP) – Dato' Sri (2024)[3]
- Knight Companion of the Order of the Crown of Pahang (DIMP) – Dato' (2008)[4]
References
- ^ BERNAMA (12 December 2023). "RAMANAN CONTINUES GRANDMOTHER'S LEGACY WITH APPOINTMENT AS DEPUTY MINISTER". BERNAMA. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
- ^ Vengadesan, Martin (21 January 2024). "Pioneering politician Devaki Krishnan dies aged 100". Malaysiakini. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ^ Asrol Awang (12 September 2024). "Al-Sultan Abdullah berkenan kurnia darjah kebesaran, pingat kepada 27 penerima". Harian Metro. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
- ^ "Semakan Penerima Darjah Kebesaran Bintang Dan Pingat".