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Kumaresan Aramugam | |
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Member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly for Batu Uban | |
Assumed office 2018 | |
Preceded by | Jayabalan A. Thambyappa |
Personal details | |
Born | Kumaresan a/l Aramugam Batu Gajah,Perak |
Citizenship | Malaysian |
Political party | PKR |
Alma mater | SMK Sultan Yussuf Universiti Sains Malaysia |
Occupation | Politician |
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.
He is from Batu Gajah,Perak. He studied in SMK Sultan Yussuf and got his Bachelor of Management degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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]
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]
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]
Year | Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||
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2018 | N35 Batu Uban | Kumaresan Aramugam (PKR) | 21,079 | 79.47% | Hng Chee Wey (Gerakan) | 3,806 | 14.35% | 26,523 | 17,273 | 83.08% | ||
Vikneswaran Muniandy (PAS) | 1,176 | 4.43% | ||||||||||
Teoh Kok Siang (MUP) | 116 | 0.44% | ||||||||||
Teoh Kean Liang (PFP) | 32 | 0.12% | ||||||||||
2023 | Kumaresan Aramugam (PKR) | 22,773 | 76.83% | Mok Kok On (Gerakan) | 6,065 | 20.46% | 29,641 | 16,708 | 68.41% | |||
Lee Kim Noor (MUDA) | 803 | 2.71% |
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