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Kumaresan Aramugam
Malaysian politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kumaresan a/l Aramugam is a Malaysian politician. A member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), he has been the member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly representing Batu Uban since 2018.
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Education
He is from Batu Gajah, Perak. He studied in SMK Sultan Yussuf and got his Bachelor of Management degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia.[citation needed]
When he was studying in USM, he was active in campus activities and was the Director of Publicity of USM Indian Cultural Association. He was also an intern staff in the office of Sim Tze Tzin, Member of Parliament for Bayan Baru.[1]
Participation in NGO
He was given the role of coordinator of PKR Citizenship Program in Penang. Together with N. Surendran, a humanitarian lawyer, he had established a task force to help stateless people and children to get their citizenship and to get to school in Penang.[2][3][4] He was the Chairman of Malaysia Indian Youth Council and the Chairman of Hindu Youth Organisation Bayan Baru.[1]
Politics
He was a member of Penang Island City Council for four terms from 2014 to 2018 and was the youngest member of PKR. He is currently the Vice President of PKR Penang State Leadership Council and Chief of AMK of Bayan Baru branch. He was the Secretary of PKR Bayan Baru branch from 2013 to 2018 and Member of Executive council of National AMK from 2014 to 2018.[1]
Political career
Member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly (since 2018)
2018 state election
In the 2018 Penang state election, PH nominated Kumaresan to contest for the Batu Uban state seat, and he won the seat. He was also elected to the Penang State Legislative Assembly as the Batu Uban MLA for the first term after defeating H'ng Chee Wey of BN, Vikneswaran Muniandy of PAS, Teoh Kok Siang of MUP, and Teoh Kean Liang of PFP by a majority of 17,273 votes.
2023 state election
Kumaresan was nominated again to contest in the 2023 Penang state election. He was elected to the Penang State Legislative Assembly as the Batu Uban MLA for the second term after defeating Mok Kok On of PN and Lee Kim Noor of MUDA. Despite this, he has to be elected with a very slightly reduced majority of 16,708.
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Election result
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References
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