Papparaidu Veraman

Papparaidu s/o Veraman is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Selangor State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) state administration under Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari and Member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Banting since August 2023. He is a member and State Assistant Organising Secretary of Selangor of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the PH coalition. He is also presently the only Selangor EXCO Member of Indian ethnicity and the younger brother of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Klang Ganabatirau Veraman.

Member of the Selangor State Executive Council (since 2023)
In the 2023 Selangor state election, the ruling PH and Barisan Nasional (BN) won a simple majority in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly and was reelected to power. Following that, Sungai Tua MLA Amirudin of PH was reappointed the Menteri Besar. Papparaidu was appointed the Selangor EXCO Member and given the portfolios of Human Resources, Poverty Eradication, Indigenous and Minority Affairs as well as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (LIMAS) by Menteri Besar Amirudin on 21 and 23 August 2023 respectively.

2023 Selangor state election
In the 2023 Selangor state election, Papparaidu made his electoral debut after being nominated by PH to contest the Banting state seat. Papparaidu won the seat and was elected to the Selangor State Legislative Assembly as the Banting MLA for the first term after defeating Saravanan Mutto Krishnan of Perikatan Nasional (PN) and independent candidate Ang Wei Yang by a majority of 22,102 votes.