Batu is a parliamentary constituency in the northern outskirts of
Kuala Lumpur
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,
Malaysia
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, covering the area between
Sentul and
Batu Caves
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.
Settlements which are part of Batu constituency include Sentul. The constituency has the most Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) public housing apartments and one of the highest rates of petty crime in the city.
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, New Straits Times, 22 March 2008.
Transportation
The Batu suburb is served by the Taman Wahyu, Kampung Batu and Batu Kentonmen Komuter stations on the KTM Komuter
KTM Komuter is a commuter rail system in Malaysia operated by Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM). It was introduced in 1995 to provide local rail services in Kuala Lumpur and the surrounding Klang Valley suburban areas. Services were later expanded to o ...
Seremban Line
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Seremban gained its city s ...
.
It is also served by the Kampung Batu, Kentonmen, as well as the Jalan Ipoh MRT stations on the MRT Putrajaya Line
The MRT Putrajaya Line is the second Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit, Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line in Klang Valley, Malaysia, and the third List of automated urban metro subway systems, fully automated and driverless rail system in the countr ...
.
Politics
The current Member of Parliament (MP) for the Batu parliamentary constituency is Prabakaran Parameswaran from Pakatan Harapan
Pakatan Harapan (PH; stylised as HARAPAN; ) is a Malaysian Parliamentary group, political coalition consisting of Centre-left politics, centre-left political parties which was formed in 2015 to succeed the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. It has led ...
of PKR, who won the seat in the 2018 Malaysian general election
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. He is the youngest serving MP in Malaysia.
See also
* Jalan Ipoh
References
Suburbs in Kuala Lumpur
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