Janil Puthucheary | |
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| ஜனில் புதுச்சேரி | |
 Puthucheary in 2022 | |
| Party Whip of the People's Action Party | |
| Assumed office 6 June 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong Lawrence Wong |
| Deputy | Zaqy Mohamad Sim Ann |
| Preceded by | Chan Chun Sing |
| Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information | |
| Assumed office 1 May 2018 | |
| Minister | Yaacob Ibrahim (2017–2018) S. Iswaran (2018–2021) Josephine Teo (2021–present) |
| Preceded by | Chee Hong Tat |
| Senior Minister of State for Health | |
| Assumed office 27 July 2020 Serving with Koh Poh Koon (2020–2022) | |
| Minister | Gan Kim Yong (2020–2021) Ong Ye Kung (2021–present) |
| Preceded by | Lam Pin Min Edwin Tong Amy Khor |
| Senior Minister of State for Transport | |
| In office 1 May 2018 – 26 July 2020 Serving with Lam Pin Min | |
| Minister | Khaw Boon Wan |
| Succeeded by | Chee Hong Tat Amy Khor |
| Senior Minister of State for Education | |
| In office 1 May 2017 – 30 April 2018 | |
| Minister | Ong Ye Kung (Higher Education and Skills) Ng Chee Meng (Schools) |
| Preceded by | Indranee Rajah (2015) |
| Succeeded by | Chee Hong Tat |
| Minister of State for Communications and Information | |
| In office 1 January 2016 – 30 April 2017 | |
| Minister | Yaacob Ibrahim |
| Minister of State for Education | |
| In office 1 January 2016 – 30 April 2017 | |
| Minister | Ong Ye Kung (Higher Education and Skills) Ng Chee Meng (Schools) |
| Member of Parliament for Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC (Punggol Coast) | |
| Assumed office 11 September 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Majority | 44,466 (28.30%) |
| Member of Parliament for Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC (Punggol West) | |
| In office 7 May 2011 – 24 August 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Sun Xueling |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 November 1972[1][2] Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Political party | People's Action Party |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Queen's University, Belfast |
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Janil Arusha Puthucheary (Tamil: ஜனில் புதுச்சேரி, romanized: Jaṉil Putuccēri; born 6 November 1972)[1][2] is a Singaporean politician and paediatrician. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been serving as Minister of State for Communications and Information since 2018 and Minister of State for Health since 2020. He has also been serving as Party Whip of the People's Action Party since 2019. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Punggol Coast division of Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC since 2015.
Born in Malaysia, Puthucheary had worked as a paediatrician at hospitals in the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore before he became a Singapore citizen in 2008.
He made his political debut in the 2011 general election as part of a six-member PAP team contesting in Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC, and won 64.79% of the vote. Puthucheary was elected as the Member of Parliament representing the Punggol West ward of Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC.
Since then, he had retained his parliamentary seat in the subsequent general elections and had switched to representing the Punggol Coast ward of Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC after the 2015 general election. He had since been serving as Minister of State and later Senior Minister of State at the Ministries of Communication and Information (2016–2017, 2020–present), Education (2016–2018), Transport (2018–2020), and Health (2020–present). He has also been the Government Whip since June 2019 and chairman of the PAP's youth wing.[3]
- ^ a b "MP | Parliament of Singapore".
- ^ a b "Parliament of Singapore : Dr Janil Puthucheary's CV". Parliament of Singapore. Archived from the original on 22 May 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "CEC". People's Action Party. Retrieved 2021-07-08.