Edmund Santhara Kumar Ramanaidu

Datuk Seri Dr. Edmund Santhara Kumar Ramanaidu () is a Malaysian politician, businessman and entrepreneur who has been the Deputy Minister of Federal Territories in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and Minister Annuar Musa since March 2020 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Segamat since May 2018. He is an associate member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component party of the PN coalition and was a member, National Integration Bureau chairman and Coordinator of Segamat of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) opposition coalition. He resigned from PKR and joined BERSATU in February 2020 as he was aligned with Mohamed Azmin Ali, then-Deputy President of PKR who was against Anwar Ibrahim, the President of PKR. He created a history of becoming the first non-indigenous politician to join BERSATU as an associate member after its party leadership decided to allow non-indigenous people to join the party as the associate members.
Career prior to politics.
Santhara joined Masterskill in October 2004 as the Director of Business Development, where he was tasked with improving the company's growth opportunities. In January 2005, he was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer, responsible for overall management. In September of the same year, Santhara was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. According to the group's website, Masterskill is the largest nursing and allied health sciences education group in Malaysia and one of the largest in the Asia Pacific region.
In 2017, Santhara announced his decision to quit as the CEO of Masterskill Education Group Bhd (MEGB) to concentrate on his political career.
Political career.
Santhara contested the Hulu Selangor parliamentary seat as an independent in the 2013 general election but gained only 999 votes. He stood in the 2018 general election in the Segamat parliamentary seat, representing PH-PKR, and was elected with 52.11% of the vote.