Manogaran Marimuthu

Manogaran s/o Marimuthu (born 14 July 1959), commonly referred to as M. Manogaran is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Teluk Intan from March 2008 to May 2013. He is a member and State Deputy Chairman of Pahang of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalitions. He is also the father of Thulsi Thivani Manogaran, Member of the Perak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Buntong and a co-founder of the Tamil Foundation of Malaysia.

Manogaran has four children who are three daughters and a son. His eldest child and daughter is Thulsi Thivani. In the 2008 general election, Manogaran was nominated by PR to contest the Teluk Intan federal seat. He won the seat and was elected to Parliament as the Teluk Intan MP after defeating Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industries, defending MP and Youth Chief of the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (GERAKAN) Mah Siew Keong of Barisan Nasional (BN). He contested the parliamentary seat of Cameron Highlands, Pahang in the 2013 general election, and was defeated by government minister Palanivel Govindasamy who was the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) President then.

In the 2018 general election, he ran again for the Cameron Highlands seat but lost again in a five-corners contest this time to MIC Vice-President Sivarraajh Chandran by 597 votes majority. However the victory was nullified by the Election Court on 30 November 2018 after it allowed the election petition filed by Manogaran that corrupt practices were committed by Sivarraajh in the 14th general election. He was picked as the PH candidate to re-contest again in the four-cornered fight in 2019 Cameron Highlands by-election. But he lost again to Barisan Nasional (BN)'s indigenous Orang Asli direct candidate Ramli Mohd Nor in the by-election.