{"id":1577,"date":"2008-03-18T13:58:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T05:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/18\/indians-in-cabinet-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T01:03:30","slug":"indians-in-cabinet-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/18\/indians-in-cabinet-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians in Cabinet 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, PM pulled off some surprises – Rafidah, JJ, Azmi Khalid…all gone. Instead, we get Shahrir (MP Johor Bahru), Zaid Ibrahim (not selected as election candidate), and Amirsham (just retired as Maybank CEO). As for the Indian representatives, Dr S.Subramaniam<\/span><\/strong> is promoted to Human Resource Minister<\/span>, while Devamany<\/span><\/strong> takes over Kayveas as Deputy Minister in PM’s Department<\/span>. Another MIC man, Saravanan<\/span><\/strong> got Deputy Federal Territory Minister<\/span> post. Most surprisingly, a Gerakan Dewan Negara Senator<\/span> – A. Kohilan Pillay [full name: A. Kohilan Pillay a\/l G. Appu]<\/span><\/strong>, who is in his early 40s, (Gerakan central commitee member) have been made Deputy Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister<\/span>. This is how he looks like:<\/p>\n

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A. Kohilan Pillay<\/p>\n

source<\/a><\/p>\n

So there are 1 minister and 3 deputies<\/strong><\/span> in the Cabinet.<\/p>\n

Full list<\/a> of Cabinet:<\/p>\n

Prime Minister<\/strong>
\nDatuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister<\/strong>
\nDatuk Seri Najib Tun Razak<\/p>\n

Ministers in the Prime Minister’s Department<\/strong>
\nTan Sri Bernard Dompok
\nDatuk Seri Nazri Aziz
\nDatuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
\nDatuk Mohd Zaid Ibrahim
\nDatuk Amirsham Abdul Aziz<\/p>\n

Deputy Ministers in the Prime Minister’s Department<\/strong>
\nDatuk Johari Baharom
\nDatuk Dr Mashitah Ibrahim
\nK<\/strong>. Devamany<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nDatuk Hassan Malik
\nFinance<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
\nSecond Finance Minister – Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop
\nDeputies – Datuk Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, Datuk Kong Cho Ha<\/p>\n

Defence<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak
\nDeputy – Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop<\/p>\n

Internal Security and Home Affairs<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar
\nDeputies – Datuk Chor Chee Heong, Senator Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh<\/p>\n

Housing and Local Government<\/strong>
\nMinister -Datuk Ong Ka Chuan
\nDeputies – Datuk Robert Lau , Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin<\/p>\n

Works Minister<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamad
\nDeputy- Datuk Yong Khoon Seng<\/p>\n

Energy, Water and Communications<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor
\nDeputy- Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum<\/p>\n

Agriculture and Agro-based Industry<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Mustapa Mohamed
\nDeputy – Datin Paduka Rohani Abdul Karim<\/p>\n

International Trade and Industry<\/strong>
\nMinister -Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin
\nDeputies- Loh Wei Keong, Datuk Jacob Dungau Sagan<\/p>\n

Foreign Affairs<\/strong>
\nMinister -Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim
\nDeputy- Tunku Azlan Abu Bakar<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong>
\nMinister -Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein
\nDeputies -Datuk Wee Ka Siong, Datuk Razali Ismail<\/p>\n

Higher Education<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Khaled Nordin
\nDeputies – Khoo Kok Choong, Datuk Idris Harun<\/p>\n

Transport<\/strong>
\nDatuk Ong Tee Keat
\nDeputy – Anifah Aman<\/p>\n

Human Resources<\/strong>
\n Datuk S.Subramaniam<\/strong><\/span>
\nDeputy- Datuk Noraini Ahmad<\/p>\n

Women, Family and Community Development<\/strong>
\nMinister-Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen
\nDeputy- Noriah Kasnon<\/p>\n

National Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage <\/strong>
\nMinister- Datuk Shafie Apdal
\nDeputy-Datuk Teng Boon Soon<\/p>\n

Science, Technology and Innovation<\/strong>
\nMinister- Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili
\nDeputy- Fadilah Yusof<\/p>\n

Entrepreneurial and Cooperative Development<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Noh Omar
\nDeputy- Datuk Saiffuddin Abdullah<\/p>\n

Natural Resources and Environment<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Douglas Unggah Embas
\nDeputy – Datuk Abu Ghapur Salleh<\/p>\n

Rural and Regional Development<\/strong>
\nMinister – Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib
\nDeputy- Tan Sri Joseph Kurup<\/p>\n

Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Shahrir Samad
\nDeputy – Jelaing Mersat<\/p>\n

Plantation Industries and Commodities<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui
\n Deputy- Senator A. Kohilan <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Youth and Sports<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaacob
\nDeputy – Wee Jack Seng<\/p>\n

Health<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Liow Tiong Lai
\nDeputy- Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad<\/p>\n

Information<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek
\nDeputy- Datuk Tan Lian Hoe<\/p>\n

Tourism<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Azalina Othman
\nDeputy – Datuk Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Abu Taib<\/p>\n

FT<\/strong>
\nMinister – Datuk Zulhasnan Rafique
\n Deputy- Datuk M. Saravanan<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, PM pulled off some surprises – Rafidah, JJ, Azmi Khalid…all gone. Instead, we get Shahrir (MP Johor Bahru), Zaid Ibrahim (not selected as election candidate), and Amirsham (just retired as Maybank CEO). As for the Indian representatives, Dr S.Subramaniam is promoted to Human Resource Minister, while Devamany takes over Kayveas as Deputy Minister in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,130,70,24,122,225,132],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-education","tag-election-2008","tag-gerakan","tag-mic","tag-najib-tun-razak","tag-politicians","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}