Kesavadas Achyuthan Nair | |
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Senator | |
Elected by the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly | |
In office 25 April 2022 –24 April 2025 Servingwith Ahmad Azam Hamzah | |
Monarchs | Abdullah (2022–2024) Ibrahim (2024–2025) |
Prime Minister | Ismail Sabri Yaakob (2022) Anwar Ibrahim (2022–2025) |
Preceded by | Himself |
Succeeded by | Vincent Wu Him Ven |
In office 20 March 2019 –19 March 2022 ServingwithAhmad Azam Hamzah | |
Monarch | Abdullah |
Prime Minister | Mahathir Mohamad (2019–2020) Muhyiddin Yassin (2020–2021) Ismail Sabri Yaakob (2021–2022) |
Preceded by | Chong Sin Woon |
Succeeded by | Himself |
State Vice Chairman of the Democratic Action Party of Negeri Sembilan | |
In office October 2018 –29 September 2024 Servingwith Teo Kok Seong | |
Secretary-General | Lim Guan Eng (2021–2022) Anthony Loke Siew Fook (2022–2024) |
State Chairman | Anthony Loke Siew Fook |
Succeeded by | Arul Kumar Jambunathan |
Personal details | |
Born | Kesavadas a/l Achyuthan Nair 11 June 1959 Klang,Selangor,Federation of Malaya |
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Alma mater | University of London (LLB) University of Malaya (CLP) |
Occupation | Politician |
Profession | Lawyer |
Kesavadas s/o A. Achyuthan Nair is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as a Senator representing Negeri Sembilan from May 2019 to May 2022 and again from April 2022 to April 2025. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP),a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. [1]
Kesavadas is a lawyer and practicing under the law firm A.k. Das &Associates in Malacca. [2] [3]
At the party level,he was a state vice chairman of DAP of the Negeri Sembilan alongside Teo Kok Seong from 2018 until 2024. [4]
On 20 March 2019,Kesavadas was elected to the Parliament as a Senator representing Negeri Sembilan for the first term after being nominated and approved by the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly. [5] On 19 March 2022,his first 3-year term ended. On 25 April 2022,he was reelected as Senator for the second term after being renominated and reapproved by the assembly.
Kesavadas also discussed the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry regarding the cartel of non-halal imported meat that was detected in 2020 and the government has agreed to set up the commission. [6]