Saraswathy Kandasami is a Malaysian politician and

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who is currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister

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and Minister

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as well as

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since December 2022. She is a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the PH coalition. She is currently the Vice President of PKR since July 2022.

Political career

Vice President of the People's Justice Party (since 2022)

After the 2022 PKR party election on 20 July 2022, President of PKR Anwar appointed Saraswathy as the Vice President of PKR, serving alongside four elected vice presidents Amirudin Shari,

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, Chang Lih Kang and

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as well as two appointed vice presidents

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and

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Candidate for the Member of Parliament (2022)

In the

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, Saraswathy made her electoral debut after being nominated by PH to contest for the Tapah federal seat. She lost to defending MP Saravanan Murugan of Barisan Nasional (BN) by a minority of 5,064 votes.

Deputy Minister of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives & Senator (since 2022)

On 10 December 2022, Prime Minister Anwar appointed Saraswathy as Deputy Minister of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives, deputising for Minister Ewon. As she was not an MP, Sarawasthy was also appointed as Senator for her to hold the deputy ministerial position.

Election results

References

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