Saravanan Murugan

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Yang Berhormat Datuk Seri Saravanan Murugan SMW PMW DMSM AMN MP
முருகன் சரவணன்
Saravanan in 2020
Minister of Human Resources
In office 30 August 2021 – 24 November 2022
Monarch	Abdullah
Prime Minister	Ismail Sabri Yaakob
Deputy	Awang Hashim
Preceded by	Himself
Succeeded by	Sivakumar Varatharaju Naidu
Constituency	Tapah
In office 10 March 2020 – 16 August 2021
Monarch	Abdullah
Prime Minister	Muhyiddin Yassin
Deputy	Awang Hashim
Preceded by	M. Kulasegaran
Succeeded by	Himself
Constituency	Tapah
Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports
In office 16 May 2013 – 9 May 2018
Monarchs	Abdul Halim (2013–2016) Muhammad V (2016–2018)
Prime Minister	Najib Razak
Minister	Khairy Jamaluddin
Preceded by	Razali Ibrahim Gan Ping Sieu
Succeeded by	Steven Sim Chee Keong
Constituency	Tapah
Deputy Minister of Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing
In office 9 April 2009 – 15 May 2013
Monarchs	Mizan Zainal Abidin (2011–2013) Abdul Halim (2009–2011)
Prime Minister	Najib Razak
Minister	Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin
Preceded by	Himself (Federal Territories)
Succeeded by	Loga Bala Mohan Jaganathan (Federal Territories) Halimah Mohamed Sadique (Urban Wellbeing)
Constituency	Tapah
Deputy Minister of Federal Territories
In office 19 March 2008 – 9 April 2009
Monarch	Mizan Zainal Abidin
Prime Minister	Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (2008–2009) Najib Razak (2009)
Minister	Zulhasnan Rafique
Preceded by	Abu Seman Yusop
Succeeded by	Himself (Deputy Minister of Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing)
Constituency	Tapah
Member of the Malaysian Parliament for Tapah
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 March 2008
Preceded by	Veerasingam Suppiah (BN–MIC)
Majority	3,020 (2008) 7,927 (2013) 614 (2018) 5,064 (2022)
Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat
2008–	Barisan Nasional
Personal details
Born	Saravanan s/o Murugan (1968-02-04) 4 February 1968 (age 56) Sentul, Kuala Lumpur (then located in Selangor, now Federal Territory), Malaysia
Political party	Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC)
Other political affiliations	Barisan Nasional (BN) Perikatan Nasional (PN) (allied) Pakatan Harapan (PH) (allied)
Spouse	Kavitha Vivekanandan[1]
Children	3
Occupation	Politician
Website	msaravanan68.blogspot.com

Datuk Seri Saravanan s/o Murugan (Tamil: முருகன் சரவணன், romanized: Murukaṉ Caravaṇaṉ; born 4 February 1968) commonly referred to as M. Saravanan (Tamil: மு. சரவணன், romanized: Mu. Caravaṇaṉ) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tapah since March 2008. He served as the Minister of Human Resources for the second term in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob from August 2021 to the collapse of the BN administration in November 2022 and the first term in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin from March 2020 to the collapse of the PN administration in August 2021, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports from May 2013 to the collapse of the BN administration in May 2018, Deputy Minister of Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing from April 2009 to May 2013 and Deputy Minister of Federal Territories from March 2008 to April 2009. He is a member and Deputy President of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), a component party of the BN coalition. From March 2020 to November 2022, he was the sole minister of the Indian ethnicity and MIC and one of the only two MIC candidates to be elected in the 2018 general election as well as the sole MIC candidate elected in the 2022 general election.^[2]

Saravanan began his political career in 1994 as a secretary in MIC for the district of Titiwangsa. Prior to his active participation in Malaysian politics, Saravanan worked several jobs as an office clerk, a member of the Malaysian police force, The Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM), and a marketing executive. He possesses a bachelor's degree in business administration from Hammersmith & West London College in England. In 2018, he pursued his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of the West of Scotland and successfully completed in the year 2022.

Saravanan was a senator prior to his election to the Dewan Rakyat (the lower house of Malaysia's Parliament). In the 2008 General Election, he contested for the seat of Tapah and won, defeating a candidate from the People's Justice Party (PKR). However, the MIC suffered widespread losses at the election, which left Saravanan as one of only three MIC members in the Dewan Rakyat. Despite his party's reduced presence in Parliament and the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, Saravanan was appointed as a Deputy Minister from 2008 until 2013.

Within the MIC, Saravanan is seen as an ally of its president Samy Vellu, being elected as a vice-president of the MIC on Vellu's ticket^[3] and defending Vellu from opposition attacks.^[4] However he lost in the party re-election close fight for the position of Deputy President in 2015 to another MIC Vice-President, S. K. Devamany.^[5][6][7]