In this Indian name, the name Seevaratnam is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Vijayaratnam. The abbreviation "s/o" or "d/o", if used, means "son of" or "daughter of" respectively.
Vijayaratnam s/o Seevaratnam (11 June 1950 – 3 November 2008) was a Malaysian politician of Ceylonese-Indian descent and one of the vice-presidents of the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (PGRM) from 2005 to 2008.[1]
His father, S. Seeveratnam was Seremban Barat Member of Parliament (DAP) whilst his uncle, S. Rajaratnam served as Minister for Culture, Minister for Labour, Foreign Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Senior Minister of Singapore. Vijayaratnam studied in Saint Paul's Institution, a prominent school and was married to Datin Anusha Tharumaratnam in which the couple are blessed with four children (three daughters and a son) namely Ashta (born 1984), Ayra (born 1986), Seeralan (born 1994) and Ahalya (born 1996), all who were aged 12, 14, 22 and 24 when he passed away (as of 2024, they are now grown adults aged 28, 30, 38 and 40 years old respectively).
From 1997 to 1999, he was a member of the Seremban Municipal Council. In 2002, he became a Malaysian senator and later in 2005, he became Parliamentary Secretary for the Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry. Besides political offices, he was also an involved with a number of professional and social bodies in lieu of his lifetime profession outside politics as a medical doctor. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health in London, England. In 1999, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Indian College of General Practitioners of New Delhi and eight years later in 2007, he was made a Fellow of Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
He was a life member of the Malaysian Medical Association.[2]
He died accidentally after falling from the roof of his clinic building in Jalan Tunku Hassan, Seremban.[3]
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