Tengku Azlan

In this Malay name, there is no surname or family name. The name Sultan Abu Bakar is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by their given name, Azlan.
Yang Amat Mulia Tengku Panglima Besar
Tan Sri Dato' Seri
Tengku Azlan
PSM SPTJ SSAP SIMP DSAP
تڠكو أزلان‎
Deputy Minister of Transport I
In office
27 March 2004 – 18 March 2008
Serving with Douglas Uggah Embas
(Deputy Minister of Transport II)
MonarchsSyed Sirajuddin
(2004–2006)
Mizan Zainal Abidin
(2006–2008)
Prime MinisterAbdullah Ahmad Badawi
MinisterChan Kong Choy
Preceded byRamli Ngah Talib
Succeeded byLajim Ukin
Member of the Malaysian Parliament
for Jerantut
In office
29 November 1999 – 5 May 2013
Preceded byAhmad Kamaruzaman Mohamed Baria
(BN–UMNO)
Succeeded byAhmad Nazlan Idris
(BN–UMNO)
Majority1,463 (1999)
8,457 (2004)
1,946 (2008)
Personal details
Born
Tengku Azlan ibni Tengku Abu Bakar

(1949-07-21) 21 July 1949 (age 75)
Istana Permai, Pekan, Pahang, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia)
Political party United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) (until 1988; 1996–2018; since 2021)
Parti Melayu Semangat 46 (S46) (1989–1996)
Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU)
(2018–2021)
Other political
affiliations		Barisan Nasional (BN) (until 1989; 1996–2018; since 2021)
Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah (APU)/Gagasan Rakyat (GR) (1989–1996)
Pakatan Harapan (PH)
(2018–2020)
Perikatan Nasional (PN)
(2020–2021)
SpouseTunku Jawahir binti Almarhum Tuanku Ja'afar
RelationsTuanku Ja'afar
(Father-in-law)
Sultan Ahmad Shah
(Elder brother)
Tunku Naquiyuddin
(Brother-in-law)
Al-Sultan Abdullah
(Nephew)
Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah
(Grandnephew)
Children3
ParentSultan Abu Bakar (Father)
OccupationRetired Politician

Tan Sri Tengku Azlan ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mu’azzam Shah (born 21 July 1949) is a retired Malaysian politician and had served as the Member of Parliament of Malaysia (MP) for Jerantut, Pahang from 1999 to 2013. Starting from 9 August 2021, he is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) of Barisan Nasional (BN), after his resignation as Temerloh Divisional Chief of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component of Pakatan Harapan (PH) and later Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition, which he rejoined for the second time since he quit UMNO in 2018.[1][2]

In 1999, Tengku Azlan was appointed as the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

Tengku Azlan declined a Deputy Minister post after the 2008 election, having previously served as a Deputy Minister for Transport.[3] He was replaced by Ahmad Nazlan Idris as the Barisan Nasional candidate for Jerantut in the 2013 election. He was a member of the opposition Semangat 46 party early in his political career, running for Parliament unsuccessfully in the 1995 elections.

Tengku Azlan is the brother of the late Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang and is the paternal uncle to the current Sultan of Pahang, Al-Sultan Abdullah. He is married to Tunku Puteri Negeri Sembilan, Tunku Puan Sri Dato' Seri Jawahir Binti Almarhum Tuanku Ja’afar and they have two sons and a daughter.[4]

Tengku Azlan was conferred the title 'Tengku Panglima Besar' by his nephew on 30 July 2021, succeeding Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim after the later acceded to become the Tengku Mahkota (Crown Prince) of Pahang.[5]

  1. ^ "Tengku Azlan Ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar, Y.B. Tan Sri" (in Malay). Parliament of Malaysia. Archived from the original on 14 April 2010. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
  2. ^ "Kembali ke Pangkuan UMNO". UMNO Online. 9 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Tengku Azlan and Anifah decline deputy minister's post". The Star (Malaysia). 19 March 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
  4. ^ R. Nadeswaran; Fernandez, Terence (8 May 2008). "Right royal politician". The Sun. Berjaya Group. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
  5. ^ Syahira Yahya (2 August 2021). "Tengku Azlan dikurnia gelaran Tengku Panglima Besar Pahang". MalaysiaGazette. Retrieved 25 August 2021.