Murali Pillai
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Murali Pillai MP |
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| கே முரளிதரன் பிள்ளை 穆仁理 |
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Pillai in 2016
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| Member of Parliament for Bukit Batok SMC |
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Assumed office 9 May 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Lee Hsien Loong |
| Preceded by | David Ong |
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K. Muralidharan Pillai 30 October 1967 Singapore |
| Political party | People's Action Party |
| Alma mater |
National University of Singapore University of California, Los Angeles |
K. Muralidharan Pillai (Tamil: கே முரளிதரன் பிள்ளை, born 30 October 1967), better known as Murali Pillai or Ah Mu (Standard Chinese: 阿穆), is a Singaporean lawyer and politician, as well as a former police officer. Pillai worked in the Singapore Police Force before his admission to practice law in 1996. In his legal career, Pillai is currently the head for commercial litigation in Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP.
In his political career, he joined the People's Action Party (PAP) in 2001. Pillai was part of a team of five from the PAP who contested and narrowly lost to the Worker's Party in the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency of the 2015 Singaporean general election. In 2016, Pillai was once again fielded in as a PAP candidate for the Bukit Batok by-election. Pillai won 61.2% of the votes, securing his position as Member of Parliament for the Bukit Batok Single Member Constituency.
K. Muralidharan Pillai was born on 30 October 1967 in Singapore. His father, P.K. Pillai, was a unionist detained during Operation Coldstore in 1963. The elder Pillai died in 2007. Pillai has been married to his educator wife, N. Gowri, for more than 20 years in 2016. The couple have twin sons and two daughters.
For his early education, Pillai studied at Monk's Hill Primary School, then Monk's Hill Secondary School and then Hwa Chong Junior College. For his tertiary education, he studied in the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he first attained a law degree with honours and then did his masters in law. He also holds a double masters in business administration in NUS and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Pillai played hockey as a student and represented his school, while he was also once the President of Raffles Hall in NUS.
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