28 Facts About Prabakaran Parameswaran

Prabakaran Parameswaran is a member of the People's Justice Party, a component party of the Pakatan Harapan coalition, and was an independent before joining PKR.

Prabakaran Parameswaran has served as the Division Chief of PKR of Batu since July 2022.

Prabakaran Parameswaran served as the Youth Chief of PKR of Federal Territories from February 2020 to August 2022.

Prabakaran Parameswaran is presently the second youngest MP at the age of 28 after Sungai Petani MP Mohammed Taufiq Johari who is a month younger than him.

Prabakaran Parameswaran was the youngest MP from 2018 to 2022 before Mohammed Taufiq took over the title after his election as an MP.

Prabakaran Parameswaran became interested in politics from his primary school days.

Prabakaran Parameswaran's father used to force him to watch parliamentary debates and read newspapers.

Prabakaran Parameswaran later became active in debates including those with political themes in school.

Prabakaran Parameswaran initially contested for the Batu federal seat in Kuala Lumpur on independent ticket where he should have faced opponents Chua Tian Chang from PH and PKR who was going to defend his seat, Dominic Lau Hoe Chai from Barisan Nasional and Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia, Azhar Yahya from the Malaysian Islamic Party as well as another independent Panjamorthy Muthusami.

Chua then accepted the offer and turned his support for Prabakaran Parameswaran and helped the latter in campaigning efforts to prevent a walkover victory for BN in Batu.

On 9 May 2018, Prabakaran Parameswaran went on to win the Batu federal seat with the help of PH and PKR by defeating all the three opponents with a total of 38,125 votes and the majority of 24,438 votes.

Prabakaran Parameswaran envisioned a Malaysia where it treats all the races and religions equally and more involvements of youths in politics so as to build a more stable fundamental of leadership succession and preparing youths as leaders to take over Malaysia in future.

Prabakaran Parameswaran said that he, as second-year law student, had planned to carry on his studies on a part-time basis and would discuss with his lecturer and counsellors before making a decision on his studies.

Prabakaran Parameswaran revealed that although he was happy and excited, the emotions could not be over because then he would be unable to think straight.

Prabakaran Parameswaran wished Prabakaran the best in politics and hoped that this would encourage more youths to join politics.

Prabakaran Parameswaran stated that with this, he would strive to perform all tasks including empowering young people to become leaders with high self-esteem.

Prabakaran Parameswaran would ensure that the stage and chance given to him would be used as best as possible in driving the Reform Agenda in line with the ideological changes that the Father of "Reformasi" and President of PKR Anwar Ibrahim wanted to implement.

Prabakaran Parameswaran stressed the importance for all to work together for the betterment of Batu PKR division and for PKR to cooperate tightly with other component parties in PH.

Prabakaran Parameswaran agreed with the decision made by two separate High Courts which ruled that qualifications and rights of Chua to contest were not affected due to RM2,000 levied against him for insulting a policeman.

At night on 15 November 2019, Prabakaran Parameswaran parked his Toyota Vellfire vehicle behind the PapaRich restaurant on Jalan Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur at about 11 pm and his vehicle was splattered with eggs, where eggshells were on the roof and front windscreen.

Prabakaran Parameswaran said the people and voters of Batu wanted a spirited youth like him to solve their problems and explain the issues.

Prabakaran Parameswaran questioned if the photo was genuine and if so, what was discussed with others at the event.

Prabakaran Parameswaran revealed that Prabakaran had decided to contest against him for the PKR Batu division chief position in the 2022 PKR party election but welcomed this as a manifestation of party democracy.

Prabakaran Parameswaran warned Prabakaran not to bring the political culture of defaming others and personal attacks into PKR.

Prabakaran Parameswaran highlighted that a team member of Prabakaran contesting against him as Batu PKR division chief namely Stephen Niles attended the so-called 'traitors' dinner, referring to the alleged BERSATU and GERAKAN fast breaking event, as well as attaching a lengthy response from Niles about his attendance at the event last year.

Prabakaran Parameswaran then responded on the same platform, noting that he was simply questioning the authenticity of the photo and did not intend to defame Chua as claimed.

Prabakaran Parameswaran regretted that Chua had "manipulated" his tweet by interpreting and saying that it was an accusation.

Prabakaran Parameswaran further clarified that he did not state that it was a BERSATU event but it was clear from the screenshot that there was a question to be answered.