Karupaiya s/o Muthusami ( ta, கருப்பையா முத்துசாமி, Karuppaiyā muttucāmi, 1953 – 16 November 2022) was a

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who served as the

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(MP) for

Padang Serai Padang Serai or lemongrass field, a little town in Kulim District, Kedah, Malaysia. The sleepy hollow, surrounded by oil palm plantations and the nearby Kulim High-tech Industrial Zone has 56 percent Malay, 23 percent Indians and 12 percent Chi ...

from May 2018 to his death in November 2022. He was a member and Division Chief of Padang Serai of the

People's Justice Party The People's Justice Party ( ms, Parti Keadilan Rakyat , often known simply as KEADILAN or PKR) is a reformist political party in Malaysia, formed in 2003 by a merger of the National Justice Party and the older Malaysian People's Party. The ...

(PKR), a component party of the

Pakatan Harapan The Alliance of Hope ( ms, Pakatan Harapan; abbrev: PH; stylized as HARAPAN) is a Malaysian political coalition consisting of centre-left political parties which was formed in 2015 to succeed the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. It has been the r ...

(PH) opposition coalition. He was also patron of both the Malaysian Indian Armed Forces (PERIM) and the Former Malaysian Armed Forces as well as member of the board of the Institute of Postgraduate Studies (IPS) of the

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Tamil School.

Personal life and death

On 16 November 2022, Karupaiya died from a heart attack while campaigning for the

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. He was seeking the second term as the Padang Serai MP by contesting in the election representing PH and PKR after serving the first from 2018 to his death in 2022 for four years. Later the same day, the

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(EC) offered its condolences to his family while informing that the EC would hold a special meeting two days later on 18 November 2022, which was also a day prior to the election to decide on the dates of the Padang Serai election. He explained that the EC had received an Election Writ by the Managing Officer in Padang Serai over the death of Karupaiya.

Election results

References

1953 births 2022 deaths Malaysian people of Tamil descent Malaysian politicians of Indian descent People's Justice Party (Malaysia) politicians Members of the Dewan Rakyat 21st-century Malaysian politicians People from Kedah {{Malaysia-politician-stub