Prabakaran Parameswaran

Prabakaran Parameswaran
பிரபாகரன் பரமேஸ்வரன்
Chairman of the Special Committee of the
Malaysian Indian Community Transformation Unit
Assumed office
7 February 2024
Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim
MinisterAaron Ago Dagang
(February–April 2024)
Director-GeneralRaveendran Nair
Preceded byRamanan Ramakrishnan
Member of the Malaysian Parliament
for Batu
Assumed office
9 May 2018
Preceded byChua Tian Chang
(PRPKR)
Majority24,438 (2018)
22,241 (2022)
Division Chief of the People's Justice Party of Batu
Assumed office
17 July 2022
PresidentAnwar Ibrahim
DeputyMohd Hafiz Solkapeli
Preceded byChua Tian Chang
State Youth Chief of the People's Justice Party of Federal Territories
In office
20 February 2020 – 27 August 2022
PresidentAnwar Ibrahim
National Youth ChiefAkmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir
(2020–2022)
Adam Adli
(2022)
Federal Territories ChiefZahir Hassan
(2020–2022)
Rafizi Ramli
(2022)
Preceded byNa'im Brundage
Succeeded byMohammad Azfar Aza Azhar
Personal details
Born
Prabakaran a/l Parameswaran

(1996-02-08) 8 February 1996 (age 28)
Batu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
CitizenshipMalaysian
NationalityMalaysia
Political partyPeople's Justice Party (PKR)
(since 2018)
Independent
(2018)
Other political
affiliations
Pakatan Harapan (PH)
(since 2018)
Alma materBrickfields Asia College
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionStudent

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.

  1. ^ "Batu MP Prabakaran appointed new Mitra chairman". The Star. 7 February 2024. Retrieved 7 February 2024.