Sivarasa Rasiah

In the 2018 general election, Sivarasa was reelected for his parliamentary seat which was renamed as Sungai Buloh in an earlier redelineation exercise.

Sivarasa was appointed Deputy Minister of Rural Development of Malaysia and sworn in on 2 July 2018 in the presence of His Majesty the Yang di Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

In the 2008 general election, Sivarasa was elected as the Member of Parliament for Subang, defeating his opponent by a 6,000 vote majority; he went on to keep the seat in the 2013 general election.

His first involvement with an NGO was in 1997 when he got involved with a women's group called Citizens Against Rape. Siva got arrested twice during the 1998 Reformasi period but shrugs it off as part and parcel of the job. He later joined PKR.

He is married to Ann James, a personality in the Malaysian theatre scene. He met his wife at a demonstration as well. "It was during Operasi Lalang and she was there too. We were kind of thrown together and that's when it all happened. After a long courtship, we finally got married in 1993", he revealed in the NST interview.

Sivarasa s/o Rasiah (Tamil: சிவராசா ராசையா , romanized: Civarācā rācaiyā; born 8 December 1956), or also known as R.Sivarasa is a prominent Malaysian politician, lawyer and human rights activist of Ceylonese/Sri Lankan descent. He is co-founder of Suara Rakyat Malaysia or SUARAM, a human rights NGO and former vice-president of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) or People's Justice Party. Sivarasa is the incumbent Member of Parliament for Sungai Buloh (constituency created from Subang in 2018 redelineation), Selangor.

He then applied for a Rhodes scholarship to pursue law at Oxford University. After completing his law degree and the Bar in Britain, Siva took a year off and went to Germany where he spent most of his time in libraries there reading. He worked for a bit after that in London before returning to Malaysia on his 30th birthday.