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Place of Birth: Wakaf Bharu, Malaysia
About Kamarudin Jaffar
- Kamarudin bin Jaffar (Jawi: ???????? ?? ?????; born 3 November 1951) is a Malaysian politician and is the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Bandar Tun Razak constituency in Kuala Lumpur.
- He is a member of People's Justice Party (PKR), a component of Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. Kamarudin was a member of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) in the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition previously before he quit from PAS and joined PKR in 2015.Earlier Kamarudin was a member of United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a major component in Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition before switching to PAS in 1999.
- While a member of UMNO, he was considered a close associate of then Deputy Prime Minister and later Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, and was held in custody with Anwar under the Internal Security Act (ISA).Kamarudin made his debut contesting but lost the Tumpat parliamentary constituency in 1995 general election when he was still in UMNO.
- Since switching to PAS, Kamarudin was elected to the Tumpat seat in the 1999, 2004, 2008 and 2013 elections.
- For the 2004 election, he was the PAS Secretary-General.
- He subsequently contested and won the Bandar Tun Razak constituency in the 2018 elections after joining PKR. Kamarudin was sworn in as Deputy Minister of Transport on 2 July 2018, as part of Prime Minister Mahathir's 7th Cabinet.
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