12 Facts About Janil Puthucheary

Janil Arusha Puthucheary is a Malaysian-born Singaporean politician and paediatrician.

Janil Puthucheary has been serving as Party Whip of the People's Action Party since 2019.

Janil Puthucheary had since been serving as Minister of State and later Senior Minister of State at the Ministries of Communication and Information, Education, Transport, and Health.

Janil Puthucheary has been the Government Whip since June 2019 and chairman of the PAP's youth wing.

Janil Puthucheary attended primary school in Kuala Lumpur before going to Oundle School in Northamptonshire for his secondary education.

Janil Puthucheary completed his training as a paediatrician at Queen's University Belfast and the Royal College of Physicians.

Janil Puthucheary worked at hospitals in Belfast, London and Sydney before he moved to Singapore in 2001 to work at KK Women's and Children's Hospital as a Senior Consultant at the children's intensive care unit.

Janil Puthucheary was compared with Chen Show Mao, a foreign-born Workers' Party candidate who had served national service as a second generation Singapore Permanent Resident.

Janil Puthucheary's father is Dominic Janil Puthucheary, a trade unionist and founding member of the People's Action Party who later left the party to join Barisan Sosialis, a party formed by expelled left-wing PAP members.

Dominic Janil Puthucheary was detained in February 1963 during Operation Coldstore but was released ten months later and barred from entering Singapore until 1990, when he was elected MP for Nibong Tebal in Penang, Malaysia.

Janil Puthucheary was born in Malaysia when his parents were living there.

Janil Puthucheary was in the first batch of the Singapore Armed Forces Volunteer Corps, which was established on 13 October 2014.